On the subject of an XML parser

[JN]

On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 11:48:47 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> Since the XML parsing library was removed from Phobos, I'm 
> thinking about either getting dlang-community/experimental.xml 
> into a usable state, or write a completely new parser.
>
> First I'd want some community input, and would like to hear 
> from the users of lodo1995's library. Depending on some 
> circumstances, I'll be losing my job next month, so I'll have 
> some extra time on my hands (no money will be a tough thing), 
> and even without that I'll try to pull it off somehow.

I never really understood why we have to make a new library 
instead of just fixing std.xml. I found std.xml to be the easiest 
to use out of all D libraries, but my understanding was it's not 
up to par performance wise.

> I might have a lot of free time in the near future, so I could 
> write something for Phobos.

Honestly, that would probably end up as std.experimental.xml2. I 
think it'd be very hard to get a new library into Phobos. As soon 
as you open yourself to comments, everyone will have their own 
idea of what a perfect XML library would look like. And after 
that, there will be a struggle whether it should use exceptions 
or not, GC or no GC, or maybe even betterC.