Compile time XML Parser?

[Kaitlyn Emmons]

On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 01:51:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 01:43:24 UTC, Kaitlyn Emmons 
> wrote:
>> Is there one in existence?
>
> Most ordinary xml D parser can run at compile time.
>
> I've tested my dom.d with it and it parses successfully, though 
> several actual manipulations cause the compiler to crash [!].
>
> import arsd.dom;
>
> string translate(string xml) {
>         auto document = new Document(xml, true, true);
>         foreach(p; document.querySelectorAll("p"))
>                 p.removeAllChildren(); // this worked at least
>                 //p.innerText = "compile time"; // crashed!
>                 //p.addClass("paragraph"); // crashed!
>         return document.toString();
> }
>
> // with the `enum` keyword, it runs the function at compile-time
> enum e = translate("<xml><p>cool</p></xml>");
>
> void main() {
>         pragma(msg, e); // and this prints the result as it 
> compiles
> }

It crash from manipulation but does it ever crash just parse and 
read? I dont need manipulation, just parse and read. Going to try 
parse and auto generate a VK binding from VKapi.xml that krhonos 
releases :) But it is big and complex xml so need stable parser.