Status of std.xml (D2/Phobos)

[Justin Johansson]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> 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.


Yep, a serious team armed with a serious programming language that
is capable of realizing an event horizon to explode the singularity
that is the black hole of the W3C specs and ultimately creating
works of shear beauty et ordo ab chao (and order out of chaos).

D2? :-)

Cheers
Justin Johansson