On Sunday, July 15, 2012 00:02:09 dsimcha wrote: > BTW, if noone is working on a new std.xml anymore, I might want to > start. I interviewed for a job where they wanted me to do a small > prototype as part of the hiring process that involved parsing XML. I > was allowed to use any language I wanted. I think my D projects played > a large role in me getting an offer, but I couldn't use it for the > prototype because std.xml is so bad. I ended up using Python instead.
Someone was working on it (Tomaz?) and was supposedly making good progress, but last time I checked, they hadn't posted anything since some time in 2010. So, as far as I can tell, that project is effectively dead. I have no idea what state it was in before it stalled or whether the code is available anywhere online. I expect that anyone who wants to work on it will either have to start from scratch or grabbing one of the existing xml parsers floating around and adjust it (though I suspect that if it's going to be range-based like it's supposed to be that any existing parsers floating around probably would need quite a bit of work to get the right API, but I don't know). It's the sort of thing that I'd love to work on given the time, but I have so much else going on that it would be ridiculous for me to even consider it. If you want to take up that baton, then I think that's great. Even if you end up taking a while to do it, that's better than getting nothing and seeing no progress as we have been for quite some time now. - Jonathan M Davis
