std.xml validity checking is absurd

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 11:06:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-02-07 23:35, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> std.xml itself is known to be absurd. I haven't used it myself,
>> but there's been a general consensus for years that it needs a 
>> complete
>> rewrite. Attempts have been started, but nobody's finished one,
>> AFAIK. You could try the XML module in Tango, it's supposed to 
>> be
>> ridiculously fast.
>
> It is fast, but it doesn't perform any validations. I have no 
> idea what happens if pass invalid XML to it.

The fact is that it isn't fast at the end. Tango.xml beat it 
pretty badly.