std.xml should just go

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/3/11 9:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Nobody that I know of. If you want to discuss design here while
>>> working on it, that would be great. I could think of a few high-level
>>> requirements:
>>>
>>> * works with input ranges so we can plug it in with any source
>>
>> The difficulty with that is if it's a pure input range, then the output
>> cannot be slices of the input.
> 
> In that case it's fair to require sliceable ranges of characters then, 
> or strings outright. It all boils down to stating one's assumptions and 
> choices. Probably parameterizing on character width would be 
> recommendable anyway.

Sounds good.