Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Brad Roberts<bra...@puremagic.com> wrote: >> Jesse Phillips wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:37:38 +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: >>> >>>> Jesse Phillips wrote: >>>>> According to the documentation having & in a tag will be turned to >>>>> & >>>>> >>>>> http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_xml.html#text >>>>> >>>>> I observe that this is not the case. And if an attribute contains & >>>>> it is turned into &amp; What is the best way to receive the same >>>>> output for both. The code that follows outputs >>>>> >>>>> Attr: What &amp; Up >>>>> Elem: What & Up >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *testfile.xml:* >>>>> >>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Tests> >>>>> <Test thing="What & Up">What & Up</Test> >>>>> </Tests> >>>> Clearly std.xml is buggy. Correct behaviour would be >>>> >>>> Attr: What & Up >>>> Elem: What & Up >>>> >>>> The best place for bug reports is >>>> >>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/ >>>> >>>> Stewart. >>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3200 >>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3201 >> The xml parsing code in D2 could use some love and care. It was originally >> written by Janice who seems to have dropped off the face of the planet. It's >> little more than a first draft with serious performance problems and several >> important bugs. >> >> Anyone want to volunteer to invest some time in improving it? > > I don't mean to shoot down the idea? But Tango already has three XML > parsers which are, like, the fastest. Ever. > > http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/04/xml-benchmarks-updated-graphs/ > > I'm just saying, it'd seem like pointless duplication of effort with > such parsers _already available_. If it could be relicensed, I'd say > that's the best route.
Relicensed and separable from the rest of Tango. It's been way too long since I looked at that code in Tango to recall any of its details. Basically I agree with you on this one. :)
