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[Alix Pexton]

On 15/05/2013 11:39, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:52 +0100, Alix Pexton wrote:
> […]
>> I recently started implementing my own XML lib for D out of frustration
>> (I want to write addons for inkscape in something that isn't Python).
> […]
>
> It might be worth noting here that SAX and DOM have not been
> distinguished so far in the thread.  I would have thought SAX would be
> really easy in D.
>
> Also, whilst Python has it's own W3C compliant DOM parser (minidom), and
> it has a pure Python (ElementTree) and C implemented simplified
> (cElementTree), the push is now to use lxml which is a wrapper around
> libxml2 and libxslt.
>
> Although it might be nice to have D implementations, perhaps D might
> follow Python and wrap a rather good system so as to get something with
> full validation and XPath sooner rather than later?
>

libxml2 and its kin should definitely get the deimos treatment!

I don't know how hard it might be to create a wrapper with an 
idiomatically D-ish interface though.

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