[GSoC] std.experimental.xml is now a PR!

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On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 06:28:35 UTC, NVolcz wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 09:31:44 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta 
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce that my GSoC project, a replacement 
>> for the outdated std.xml, is now a Phobos PR! [1] It is an 
>> (almost complete) mirror of my repository [2], which is also 
>> available on DUB [3].
>>
>> I would like to thank my mentor Robert burner Schadek for his 
>> great support and everybody who already gave some feedback 
>> during these months.
>>
>> The PR is not meant for immediate merging. Some things still 
>> need improvement (docs/unittests/...) while others will come 
>> in a second iteration (advanced DTD handling). It is meant to 
>> for some reviews, focusing mainly on the design and usability 
>> of the library.
>>
>> In the PR description you will find all the details, including 
>> a nice "wishlist" of things that I found missing in D during 
>> the development and some open questions.
>>
>> So, if you have any consideration/suggestion, drop a line here 
>> or on the PR, and if you find bugs, don't hesitate to file an 
>> issue on the issue tracker of my repository.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4741
>> [2] https://github.com/lodo1995/experimental.xml
>> [3] https://code.dlang.org/packages/std-experimental-xml
>
> I like the new cursor API very much since it enables new use 
> cases that are were hard to do with the old API. Thanks for 
> your hard work!
>
> Examples are a bit scares. I like the way Phobos documents 
> every functions with an unittest/example. I'm all for that!
>
> Another thing I encountered some days ago was that the default 
> error handler is using asserts to signal error. 
> https://github.com/lodo1995/experimental.xml/issues/30
> It is not obvious from the API that you're required to have a 
> error handler.
> Two ideas:
> Use exceptions instead of asserts. This way it is recoverable 
> in the default use case.
> Require a error handler in the constructor.

Examples still sucks. Hard to start use lib.