Justin Johansson wrote:
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?
Justin
You might want to consider posting this question on the Tango IIRC
you can use http://webchat.freenode.net/ to access this.
The channel is #D.tango
Nick B
