On the subject of an XML parser

[solidstate1991]

On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 17:15:42 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>
> You made my day as I need a good XML library that is as good as 
> Python's xml (https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html) 
> package.
>
> You are absolutely right, 
> https://github.com/dlang-community/experimental.xml is a good 
> starting point. See what is missing, as well as what can be 
> improved. It is a pity that package did not get finished... I 
> gave up using D for any XML processing long ago but perhaps 
> your library will be good enough for some of my future XML 
> processing tasks.

I took a look at experimental.xml. According to its tests, it's 
biggest issue is that it accepts malformed documents. I'll 
attempt to reverse-engineer the code, then add the necessary 
checks to reject the malformed documents. Since it has multiple 
options for allocators (stdx-allocator), it'll be a bit of a 
challenge, but at worst I can strip that function and replace it 
with GC only.