std.xml2 (collecting features)

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:39:48 UTC, Robert burner Schadek 
wrote:
> std.xml has been considered not up to specs nearly 3 years now. 
> Time to build a successor. I currently plan the following 
> featues for it:
>
> - SAX and DOM parser
> - in-situ / slicing parsing when possible (forward range?)
> - compile time switch (CTS) for lazy attribute parsing
> - CTS for encoding (ubyte(ASCII), char(utf8), ... )
> - CTS for input validating
> - performance
>
> Not much code yet, I'm currently building the performance test 
> suite https://github.com/burner/std.xml2
>
> Please post you feature requests, and please keep the posts DRY 
> and on topic.

maybe off-topic, but it would be nice if the standard json,xml, 
etc etc all had identical interfaces(except for 
implementation-specific quirks.) This might be something worth 
discussing if it wasn't already agreed upon.