I had some trouble when first starting with phobos, because there was no XML parser immediately available.  There were some dead projects, but that was about it other than the D2 phobos parser.  I wrote my own parser available here: https://the.narro.ws/svn/opticron/branches/kxml  It is based on the Yage parser, but the internal parsing routine has been completely rewritten from scratch to be a string parser instead of a stream parser and I've added a lot otherwise.  There is a good bit of room for improvement, but even as it stands, it should be approximately double the performance of the D2 phobos parser if not more.  It currently supports parsing of unparsed CData nodes (<![CDATA[...]]>) and xml processing elements, and ignores other elements it doesn't understand.  The attribute parsing is ugly, but it works.  I'll redo it at some point.

Let me know what you think!  I'm always open to comments/suggestions/criticism. https://the.narro.ws/svn/opticron/branches/kxml