What's the current state of the nation with respect to the XML (W3C compliant) ecosystem for D?
Last months D forum archive had some discussions about std.text.xml or similar (for Phobos) but all in all seems to be no overall plan. (Whoever was developing seems to have gone AWOL; has Andrei been left with picking up from whoever left off?) Tango doesn't seem to have a grand plan either. Please correct me if I'm wrong. To qualify my question, by XML ecosystem I mean all things to do with XML processing and I/O, including parsing, serialization (complete suite of output formats XML/XHTML/HTML/plain text), memory-resident tree model(s), and particularly XSLT 2.0. Now I can here you all saying, "what planet is this guy on?" but given that D is supposed to be a systems programming language, real world (web) I/O, processing and glue that address contemporary W3C standards are of paramount importance if D is to be taken seriously. (IMHO) Has Java become the defacto language for doing any of this stuff -- all the tools are available? Having spent the last week trying to leverage non-Java libraries to get there in D, I'm not even close aside from a successful 2 hour exercise in getting James Clark's Expat XML parser working in D. Are any of these issues on D developer radars?
