On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 07:47:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

There are several D XML libraries floating around, but no one has taken the
time to get any of the prepared for the Phobos review queue, and I suspect
that very few of them are range-based like the Phobos XML solution needs to
be, but I don't know.

I think it's great that there's no std.xml, as it implies that nobody using D would use a dumb tech like XML.  Let's keep it that way. :)