std.xml2 (collecting features)

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:47:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:39:48 UTC, 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.
>
> My request: just skip it.  XML is a horrible waste of space for 
> a standard, better D doesn't support it well, anything to 
> discourage it's use.  I'd rather see you spend your time on 
> something worthwhile.  If data formats are your thing, you 
> could help get Ludwig's JSON stuff in, or better yet, enable 
> some nice binary data format.

Glad to hear that someone is working on XML support. We cannot 
just "skip it". XML/HTML like mark up comes up all the time, here 
and there. I recently had to write a mini-parser (nowhere near 
the stuff Robert is doing, just a quick fix!) to extract data 
from XML input. This has nothing to do with personal preferences, 
it's just there [1] and has to be dealt with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Language