Status of std.xml (D2/Phobos)

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 06/28/2010 08:13 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> If you look at any of the Java sources for these XML projects, you will
> be astounded just how big they are, like the Saxon Java XSLT processor
> by Michael Kay for example*. Of course you will be secretly thinking to
> yourself that the size these works would be considerably smaller if they
> were written in D :-)
>
> (*Michael Kay has spent the last ten years working on it.)
>
> In the C++ world of Qt, there is the Qt XmlPatterns library which
> implements XPath 2.0 which is also quite sizable and currently
> incomplete (implementing only about 70% of the W3C spec) and there
> are a whole bunch of (former TrollTech?) people at Nokia working on it,
> again demonstrating that implementing these W3C specs is no simple feat.

Sounds ominous. Like you'd need a serious team if you actually wanted to 
do any of this stuff.