What's dxml DOMEntity(R) type ?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/5/23 6:43 AM, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote:
> On Monday, 5 June 2023 at 10:01:01 UTC, John Xu wrote:
>> The parseDOM returns a DOMEntity(R) type, how do I write a xmlRoot as 
>> global variable?
>> I need its detailed type (auto / Variant doesn't work).
>>
>>
>>         import dxml.dom;
>>         ?? xmlRoot;
>>         int main() {
>>             string xml = readText("a.xml");
>>             auto dom = parseDOM(xml);
>>             xmlRoot = dom.children[0];
>>         }
> ```d
> import dxml.dom;
> import std.stdio;
> 
>      DOMEntity!string xmlRoot;
>      int main()
>      {
>          string xml = "<some></some>";
>          auto dom = parseDOM(xml);
>          writeln(typeof(dom.children[0]).stringof); // yields 
> "DOMEntity!string"
>          xmlRoot = dom.children[0];
>          return 0;
>      }
>      ```


In general, the easiset thing to do is use typeof, though it's not 
always pretty (and not always obvious how to write it). However, it's 
required for voldemort types.

```d
typeof(parseDom("")) DomEntity;
```

-Steve