Is std.xml seriously broken, or is it me?

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 30 July 2017 at 03:16:35 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 July 2017 at 02:58:09 UTC, Mike wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> It appears `onStartTag` does not handle the root element.  For 
> example, this code seems to work:
>
> import std.xml;
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main()
> {
> 	auto parser = new DocumentParser("<?xml version=\"1.0\" 
> encoding=\"utf-8\"?><device><peripheral></peripheral></device>");
>     parser.onStartTag["peripheral"] = (ElementParser parser)
>     {
>         writeln("peripheral");
>     };
>     parser.parse();	
> }
>
> Mike

You may want to try the experimental candidate for Phobos 
instead, which was developed as a GSoC project but never finished:

http://code.dlang.org/packages/std-experimental-xml