The XML module in Phobos

[Michael Rynn]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:15:46 -0400, llee <llee at jhsph.edu> wrote:

>The std.xml module contains several bugs that need to be fixed. The most important one is that the parser fails to parse empty elements (IE elements that use the <tag name="value" /> format). I'd like to report this bug to the modules' maintainer, but I don't know who to contact. (This is an old bug - it's been around for at least a year and I'm surprised that it has not been fixed).

I did look at the code for the xml module, and posted a suggested bug
fix to the empty elements problem. I do not have access rights to
updating the source repository, and at the time was too busy for this.

Now I am a state of my work position had been recently  made
redundant, and I would like to be considered for improving the std xml
module, or at least find out what I would have to do to be up to
scratch for this.

There are other possibilities of course, if you want a quick and ready
xml parser.

I had little trouble in compiling a static library version of the
Expat 2.01 ( probably oldish now), and linking D code to this.

I also made an attempt at creating D interfaces to the libxml windows
DLLs.  Because when I run CodeBlocks in debug mode, with ddbg, their
is a crash if another DLL is linked in via an import module.  

If not the xml module, then perhaps some lesser D library project to
get warmed up on.

I will have some time on my hands now,but perhaps  not as much as I
might want to think, because my post-redundacy workshops and resume
preparation are telling me that finding a job is full time occupation.

In any case I could do something with std.xml  ( for D2.0 ).

Pity I seen  jobs yet offering for D language programmers.