Guys

Can anyone fill me in on the total picture wrt available XML libs for D?

The reason I ask is that one of the things I've worked on with STLSoft - properties for C++ (which you can read about in Chapter 35 of IC++) - and a new pattern I've been working on - called Handle::Ref (which I'm going to write an article about very soon) - have given me cause to wonder about whether I might be able to generate efficient and complete wrappers for extant libraries, for both C++ and D. Since XML is something I've been needing commercially recently, and is a pretty popular thing in any case, I naturally thought of that.

As those of you who know me know, I've a lot on, but I see this as something that I would do during, and complementary to, the writing of D Programming Distilled, such that it'd inform on the writing and vice versa, and also produce something useful at the end. It'd also do have a similar impetus for DTL, which has been floundering for nearly 12 months (much to my shame; though I am certain it will also prosper during DPD).

I'm not talking about writing an XML parser here, it would be a tool for generating full-featured bindings to existing libs, such as MSXML, expat, libxml, etc., etc.

The reason I'm writing is simple: if there are good efforts around already happening with D/XML - whether they're parsers or bindings - then I will look for another area. I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and I think there's little point duplicating effort in this case.

Your feedback is appreciated.

Cheers

Matthew

Actually, I'm just finishing up a 100% D DOM (level 1) based XML parser to be included with Mango.  A preliminary version is already in the Mango SVN repository.

It's nearly fully XML1.0 compliant (doesn't support parsed entities, or external references), however is non-validating.  The DOM is seperated from the parser, however, so it should be fairly extensible.

I'm sure this won't fully furfill the XML needs of the D community, but it's a pretty good start, and I'm hoping people will build on it.

In addition, there's also xmld, and I think there's an expat binding floating around somewhere.

On a side node, I'm releasing an XML-RPC library along with the XML library in mango.

John

Matthew wrote:
> Guys
> 
> Can anyone fill me in on the total picture wrt available XML libs for D?
> 
> The reason I ask is that one of the things I've worked on with STLSoft - properties for C++ (which you can read about in Chapter 35 of IC++) - and a new pattern I've been working on - called Handle::Ref (which I'm going to write an article about very soon) - have given me cause to wonder about whether I might be able to generate efficient and complete wrappers for extant libraries, for both C++ and D. Since XML is something I've been needing commercially recently, and is a pretty popular thing in any case, I naturally thought of that.
> 
> As those of you who know me know, I've a lot on, but I see this as something that I would do during, and complementary to, the writing of D Programming Distilled, such that it'd inform on the writing and vice versa, and also produce something useful at the end. It'd also do have a similar impetus for DTL, which has been floundering for nearly 12 months (much to my shame; though I am certain it will also prosper during DPD).
> 
> I'm not talking about writing an XML parser here, it would be a tool for generating full-featured bindings to existing libs, such as MSXML, expat, libxml, etc., etc.
> 
> The reason I'm writing is simple: if there are good efforts around already happening with D/XML - whether they're parsers or bindings - then I will look for another area. I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and I think there's little point duplicating effort in this case.
> 
> Your feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 

Cool. Thanks

I reckon I'll find an unploughed application area to develop my tool with. (Maybe if/when it works, it might be used by others on XML projects.)

Cheers

Matthew

"John Demme" <me@teqdruid.com> wrote in message news:cu94om$1m2r$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Actually, I'm just finishing up a 100% D DOM (level 1) based XML parser to be included with Mango.  A preliminary version is already in the Mango SVN repository.
>
> It's nearly fully XML1.0 compliant (doesn't support parsed entities, or external references), however is non-validating.  The DOM is seperated from the parser, however, so it should be fairly extensible.
>
> I'm sure this won't fully furfill the XML needs of the D community, but it's a pretty good start, and I'm hoping people will build on it.
>
> In addition, there's also xmld, and I think there's an expat binding floating around somewhere.
>
> On a side node, I'm releasing an XML-RPC library along with the XML library in mango.
>
> John
>
> Matthew wrote:
>> Guys
>>
>> Can anyone fill me in on the total picture wrt available XML libs for D?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that one of the things I've worked on with STLSoft - properties for C++ (which you can read about in Chapter 35 of IC++) - and a new pattern I've been working on - called Handle::Ref (which I'm going to write an article about very soon) - have given me cause to wonder about whether I might be able to generate efficient and complete wrappers for extant libraries, for both C++ and D. Since XML is something I've been needing commercially recently, and is a pretty popular thing in any case, I naturally thought of that.
>>
>> As those of you who know me know, I've a lot on, but I see this as something that I would do during, and complementary to, the writing of D Programming Distilled, such that it'd inform on the writing and vice versa, and also produce something useful at the end. It'd also do have a similar impetus for DTL, which has been floundering for nearly 12 months (much to my shame; though I am certain it will also prosper during DPD).
>>
>> I'm not talking about writing an XML parser here, it would be a tool for generating full-featured bindings to existing libs, such as MSXML, expat, libxml, etc., etc.
>>
>> The reason I'm writing is simple: if there are good efforts around already happening with D/XML - whether they're parsers or bindings - then I will look for another area. I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and I think there's little point duplicating effort in this case.
>>
>> Your feedback is appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>