std.xml2 (collecting features)

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On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 22:02:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/3/2015 2:31 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
>> Can it lazily reads huge files (files greater than memory)?
>
> If a range interface is used, it doesn't need to be aware of 
> where the data is coming from. In fact, the xml package should 
> NOT be doing I/O.

Wouldn't D-ranges make it impossible to use SIMD optimizations  
when scanning?

However, it would make a lot of sense to just convert an existing 
XML solution with Boost license. I don't know which ones are any 
good, but RapidXML is at least Boost.