I've been roused into action on this particular issue - XMLSTL - and there's
a detailed post (with the same title as above) requesting opinion and
soliciting
test assistance with the soon-to-be-released first implementation.

This first version is wraps only the DOM API from MSXML on Win32. (Of course, that still covers a *lot* of users.) It will support most compilers, although the older ones won't be able to use the nice property syntax. (DMC++ has a couple of "features" that raise small surmountable problems.)

Click over to news://news.digitalmars.com/c++.stlsoft to find out more.

Cheers

Matthew