Status of std.xml (D2/Phobos)

[Justin Johansson]

Adam Ruppe wrote:
> I'm not terribly interested in it because I already wrote my own
> replacement: http://arsdnet.net/dcode/dom.d
> 
> Mine is biased toward HTML, doing what I personally find useful, or
> mimicing what javascript in the browser would do instead of following
> the standard, but if there's anything in there that is useful to
> others, you're free to take it.

Thanks Adam for replying.  I'm happy to take onboard contra-views
such as yours as well.  Naturally it is no point in putting in an
effort wherein there is no interest at large.

Still, I'll wait for more replies on this ng before making any
decision whether or not to commit myself to a new "D2 XML" effort.

btw. I feel it fair to add conjecture that a DOM implementation
is pretty basic stuff and that a complete XML ecosystem it much
larger than just this (i.e. an in-memory DOM).  There are all
sorts of abstractions (Andrei read ranges) and modeling that
would form part of what I believe would be a major work, and
one possibly even bigger than what one person like myself could
ever hope to achieve.

Of course, the mammoth effort by Michael Kay in producing the
Saxon (Java-based) XSLT processor is a feat that few others
will ever overshadow.

Cheers
Justin Johansson