On 06/28/2010 08:13 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
If you look at any of the Java sources for these XML projects, you will
be astounded just how big they are, like the Saxon Java XSLT processor
by Michael Kay for example*. Of course you will be secretly thinking to
yourself that the size these works would be considerably smaller if they
were written in D :-)
(*Michael Kay has spent the last ten years working on it.)
In the C++ world of Qt, there is the Qt XmlPatterns library which
implements XPath 2.0 which is also quite sizable and currently
incomplete (implementing only about 70% of the W3C spec) and there
are a whole bunch of (former TrollTech?) people at Nokia working on it,
again demonstrating that implementing these W3C specs is no simple feat.
Sounds ominous. Like you'd need a serious team if you actually wanted to
do any of this stuff.
