std.xml2 (collecting features)

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/05/2015 5:39 a.m., Robert burner Schadek wrote:
> std.xml has been considered not up to specs nearly 3 years now. Time to
> build a successor. I currently plan the following featues for it:
>
> - SAX and DOM parser
> - in-situ / slicing parsing when possible (forward range?)
> - compile time switch (CTS) for lazy attribute parsing
> - CTS for encoding (ubyte(ASCII), char(utf8), ... )
> - CTS for input validating
> - performance
>
> Not much code yet, I'm currently building the performance test suite
> https://github.com/burner/std.xml2
>
> Please post you feature requests, and please keep the posts DRY and on
> topic.

Preferably the interfaces are made first 1:1 as the spec requires.
Then its just a matter of building the actual reader/writer code.

That way we could theoretically rewrite the reader/writer to support 
other formats such as html5/svg. Independently of phobos.

Also would be nice to be CTFE'able!