On 2009-09-12 11:07:38 -0400, Justin Johansson <[email protected]> said:
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.
There's a huge jump between XSLT 2.0 and the capability of parsing,
serialization and having a tree model.
I started a XML tokenizer and DOM project for D2. In fact, the idea is
that it could eventualy replace std.xml in Phobos 2. It's not advancing
very fast as I don't have any urgent need of it and I'm busy working on
too many things at once. If you're interested in looking at it, here's
the documentation:
Tokenizer part: http://michelf.com/docs/d/mfr/xmltok.html
DOM part: http://michelf.com/docs/d/mfr/xml.html
That's still far from XSLT (I don't have namespaces yet, and even less
Xpath), but it's a start. If others want to help developing it, I can
share the code and setup what's necessary for collaboration.
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)
That depends in which fields you want D to be taken seriously. You
don't need a full XML ecosystem everywhere. But a few things I'd like
to do with D requires it.
--
Michel Fortin
[email protected]
http://michelf.com/
