Replacing std.xml

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 07:25:36 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> Hello everybody. I've been wondering, what are the current 
> plans to replace std.xml? I'd like to help with the effort to 
> get a final XML library in phobos. So, I have a few questions.
>
> First, and most importantly, what do we except out of a D XML 
> library? I'd really like to have a discussion of the form, 
> "Here is exactly the interface the structs/classes need to 
> implement, go forth and implement." The general idea in my mind 
> is "something SAX-like, with something a little DOM-like." I'm 
> aware that std.xml has some issues support different encodings, 
> so obvious that's included.
>
> Second, is there an existing library that has gotten close to 
> meeting whatever we need for the first point? If so, how far 
> away is it from being able to meet all of the requirements and 
> become the standard library version?

There is http://dsource.org/projects/xmlp, which at some point 
has been proposed for std.xml2. But that stalled for some time 
now.