On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 12:13:53 UTC, Chris wrote:
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.
Glad to hear that someone is working on XML support. We cannot
just "skip it". XML/HTML like mark up comes up all the time,
here and there. I recently had to write a mini-parser (nowhere
near the stuff Robert is doing, just a quick fix!) to extract
data from XML input. This has nothing to do with personal
preferences, it's just there [1] and has to be dealt with.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Language
Then write a good XML extraction-only library and dub it. I see
no reason to include this in Phobos, which will encourage those
who don't know any better to use it, since it comes with the
compiler. I'll close with a quote from Saint Linus of Torvalds,
which I was unaware of till a couple days ago:
"XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse
for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers.
There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#2014
