Michael Rynn wrote:
I did look at the code for the xml module, and posted a suggested bug
fix to the empty elements problem. I do not have access rights to
updating the source repository, and at the time was too busy for this.
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
It would be great if you could contribute to Phobos. Two things I hope
from any replacement (a) works with ranges and ideally outputs ranges,
(b) uses alias functions instead of delegates if necessary.
Interesting. Most XML parsers either produce a "Document" object, or
they just execute SAX callbacks. If an XML parser returned a range
object, how would you use it?
Usually, I use something like XPath to extract information from an XML
doc. Something liek this:
auto doc = parser.parse(xml);
auto nodes = doc.select("/root//whatever[...@id]");
I can see how you might do depth-first or breadth-first traversal of the
DOM tree, or inorder traversal of the SAX events, with a range. But
that's now how most people use XML. Are there are other range tricks up
your sleeve that would support the a DOM or XPath kind of model?
--benji
