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reply Justin Johansson <procode adam-dott-com.au> writes:
What's the current state of the nation with respect to the XML (W3C compliant)
ecosystem for D?

Last months D forum archive had some discussions about std.text.xml or similar
(for Phobos) but all in all seems to be no overall plan.  (Whoever was
developing seems to have gone AWOL; has Andrei been left with picking up from
whoever left off?) Tango doesn't seem to have a grand plan either.  Please
correct me if I'm wrong.

To qualify my question, by XML ecosystem I mean all things to do with XML
processing and I/O, including parsing, serialization (complete suite of output
formats XML/XHTML/HTML/plain text), memory-resident tree model(s), and
particularly XSLT 2.0.

Now I can here you all saying, "what planet is this guy on?" but given that D
is supposed to be a systems programming language, real world (web) I/O,
processing and glue that address contemporary W3C standards are of paramount
importance if D is to be taken seriously. (IMHO)

Has Java become the defacto language for doing any of this stuff -- all the
tools are available?

Having spent the last week trying to leverage non-Java libraries to get there
in D, I'm not even close aside from a successful 2 hour exercise in getting
James Clark's Expat XML parser working in D.

Are any of these issues on D developer radars?
Sep 12 2009
next sibling parent reply Michel Fortin <michel.fortin michelf.com> writes:
On 2009-09-12 11:07:38 -0400, Justin Johansson <procode adam-dott-com.au> said:


 What's the current state of the nation with respect to the XML (W3C 
 compliant) ecosystem for D?
 
 Last months D forum archive had some discussions about std.text.xml or 
 similar (for Phobos) but all in all seems to be no overall plan.  
 (Whoever was developing seems to have gone AWOL; has Andrei been left 
 with picking up from whoever left off?) Tango doesn't seem to have a 
 grand plan either.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
 To qualify my question, by XML ecosystem I mean all things to do with 
 XML processing and I/O, including parsing, serialization (complete 
 suite of output formats XML/XHTML/HTML/plain text), memory-resident 
 tree model(s), and particularly XSLT 2.0.


There's a huge jump between XSLT 2.0 and the capability of parsing, 
serialization and having a tree model.

I started a XML tokenizer and DOM project for D2. In fact, the idea is 
that it could eventualy replace std.xml in Phobos 2. It's not advancing 
very fast as I don't have any urgent need of it and I'm busy working on 
too many things at once. If you're interested in looking at it, here's 
the documentation:

Tokenizer part: http://michelf.com/docs/d/mfr/xmltok.html
DOM part:       http://michelf.com/docs/d/mfr/xml.html

That's still far from XSLT (I don't have namespaces yet, and even less 
Xpath), but it's a start. If others want to help developing it, I can 
share the code and setup what's necessary for collaboration.


 Now I can here you all saying, "what planet is this guy on?" but given 
 that D is supposed to be a systems programming language, real world 
 (web) I/O, processing and glue that address contemporary W3C standards 
 are of paramount importance if D is to be taken seriously. (IMHO)


That depends in which fields you want D to be taken seriously. You 
don't need a full XML ecosystem everywhere. But a few things I'd like 
to do with D requires it.


-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
Sep 12 2009
parent reply div0 <div0 users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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Michel Fortin wrote:

 On 2009-09-12 11:07:38 -0400, Justin Johansson
 <procode adam-dott-com.au> said:
 

 What's the current state of the nation with respect to the XML (W3C
 compliant) ecosystem for D?

 Last months D forum archive had some discussions about std.text.xml or
 similar (for Phobos) but all in all seems to be no overall plan. 
 (Whoever was developing seems to have gone AWOL; has Andrei been left
 with picking up from whoever left off?) Tango doesn't seem to have a
 grand plan either.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 To qualify my question, by XML ecosystem I mean all things to do with
 XML processing and I/O, including parsing, serialization (complete
 suite of output formats XML/XHTML/HTML/plain text), memory-resident
 tree model(s), and particularly XSLT 2.0.


 There's a huge jump between XSLT 2.0 and the capability of parsing,
 serialization and having a tree model.


Yar. And XSLT is the only thing about all that xml bullshit that is in
anyway interesting. Writing a XSLT processor is a massively none trivial
task.

Mind you saxon is written in Java, which was the only XSLT processor I
found which did a proper job of it.

It seems on causal thought that it ought to be possible to machine
translate it into D, unless Java has under gone massive change since the
last time I played with it.

So who's up for writing a Java to D translator?

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Sep 12 2009
parent reply Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, div0 <div0 users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

 It seems on causal thought that it ought to be possible to machine
 translate it into D, unless Java has under gone massive change since the
 last time I played with it.

 So who's up for writing a Java to D translator?


You mean Tioport?
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tioport
Sep 12 2009
parent div0 <div0 users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, div0 <div0 users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

 It seems on causal thought that it ought to be possible to machine
 translate it into D, unless Java has under gone massive change since the
 last time I played with it.

 So who's up for writing a Java to D translator?


 
 You mean Tioport?
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/tioport


ty for the link, interesting.
Not that I want an XSLT processor at the moment.

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My enormous talent is exceeded only by my outrageous laziness.
http://www.ssTk.co.uk
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Sep 13 2009
prev sibling parent Nick B <nickB gmail.com> writes:
Justin Johansson wrote:

 What's the current state of the nation with respect to the XML (W3C compliant)
ecosystem for D?
 
 Last months D forum archive had some discussions about std.text.xml or similar
(for Phobos) but all in all seems to be no overall plan.  (Whoever was
developing seems to have gone AWOL; has Andrei been left with picking up from
whoever left off?) Tango doesn't seem to have a grand plan either.  Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
 
 To qualify my question, by XML ecosystem I mean all things to do with XML
processing and I/O, including parsing, serialization (complete suite of output
formats XML/XHTML/HTML/plain text), memory-resident tree model(s), and
particularly XSLT 2.0.
 
 Now I can here you all saying, "what planet is this guy on?" but given that D
is supposed to be a systems programming language, real world (web) I/O,
processing and glue that address contemporary W3C standards are of paramount
importance if D is to be taken seriously. (IMHO)
 
 Has Java become the defacto language for doing any of this stuff -- all the
tools are available?
 
 Having spent the last week trying to leverage non-Java libraries to get there
in D, I'm not even close aside from a successful 2 hour exercise in getting
James Clark's Expat XML parser working in D.
 
 Are any of these issues on D developer radars?
 


Justin

You might want to consider posting this question on the Tango IIRC

you can use  http://webchat.freenode.net/  to access this.
The channel is   #D.tango

Nick B
Sep 12 2009