On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 10:55:01 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
If you really want to be serious about the XML package, then I
humbly believe implementing the commonly-known DOM interfaces
is a must. Luckily there is IDL available for it:
https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/idl/dom.idl . Also,
speaking about DOM, all levels need to be supported!
I agree, but the Document Object Model (DOM) is a huuuuuuuuge
project. It's a project I'd love to take an active hand in
driving. Also, DOM "level 4" is a living standard at whatwg.org,
along with rules for parsing HTML. (Which naturally means the
rules are always changing.)
I have a partial implementation of DOM in JavaScript, so I am
serious when I say it's going to take time.
Ideally (imho), we'd have a set of related packages, prefixed
with std.web:
* html
* xml
* dom
* css
* javascript
(Yes, I'm suggesting a rename of std.xml2 to std.web.xml.)
But from what I can see, realistically the community is a long
way from that. I'm trying to write the SAX interfaces now. I
only have a limited amount of time to devote to this (a common
complaint, I gather)...
