On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:47:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
My request: just skip it. XML is a horrible waste of space for
a standard, better D doesn't support it well, anything to
discourage it's use. I'd rather see you spend your time on
something worthwhile. If data formats are your thing, you
could help get Ludwig's JSON stuff in, or better yet, enable
some nice binary data format.
I agree that JSON is superior through-and-through, but legacy
support matters, and XML is in many places. It's good to have a
quality XML parsing library.
