On 06/27/2010 10:16 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
OTOH, there are some really significant W3C specs that you may or may not be aware of and these are really difficult to implement in regular imperative languages like C/C++ and Java. Java, being all that is the following of Java I guess, has had the most success in implementing these specs. IMHO, the two most fundamental and significant W3C specs that D libraries could well address are as follows. These form a large amount of the (formal) XML ecosystem. XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/ and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-datamodel-20070123/ I can tell you for sure that XPath 2.0, which is the basis for XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0, is truly a challenge to implement in languages like C++ and Java. Others have succeeded with implementations in languages like Eiffel. I would hope though, that D2 would be up to the task (is that is wishful thinking?). Cheers Justin Johansson
For the sake of us uninformed spectators, could you give a little taste of the challenges to which you refer?
