• Jan Hanselaer (10/10) Apr 25 2007 Hi all,
• Lars Ivar Igesund (9/23) Apr 25 2007 AFAIK, the most mature parser in D at the moment, is the SAX parser in
• Lutger (7/23) Apr 25 2007 I've had good experience with mango's xml package, it's fast and easy to...
• jcc7 (7/7) Apr 25 2007 There's a whole list of candidates at Wiki4D:
• Clay Smith (6/22) Apr 25 2007 Another option:
• Gregor Richards (5/9) Apr 25 2007 I would personally like to thank Walter, the Tango team, God, Satan,
• Aziz K. (19/27) Apr 25 2007 What?! You worthless, blasphemous creature deserving of eternal punishme...
• Bill Baxter (4/21) Apr 25 2007 Joke or not, that comment is way out of line. Go sit in the corner for
• Aziz K. (92/95) Apr 26 2007 Thanks for the rebuke, but no, I'm not going to sit in the corner and
• Dan (7/107) Apr 26 2007 Well said, sir; and fully agreed upon.

"Jan Hanselaer" <jan.hanselaer gmail.com> writes:

Hi all,

I need to parse an xml-document so I hoped there would be support for that 
in the Phobos Runtime Library.
Obviously that's not the case.

There probably are some libraries for it, so my question is ... anyone of 
you has some experience in parsing Xml-files?
What library did you use? For me it's very important that there is some 
documentation available.

Thanks in advance

Jan 

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Jan Hanselaer wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I need to parse an xml-document so I hoped there would be support for that
 in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.
 
 There probably are some libraries for it, so my question is ... anyone of
 you has some experience in parsing Xml-files?
 What library did you use? For me it's very important that there is some
 documentation available.
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 Jan

AFAIK, the most mature parser in D at the moment, is the SAX parser in
Mango.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/mango

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

Jan Hanselaer wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I need to parse an xml-document so I hoped there would be support for that 
 in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.
 
 There probably are some libraries for it, so my question is ... anyone of 
 you has some experience in parsing Xml-files?
 What library did you use? For me it's very important that there is some 
 documentation available.
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 Jan 
 
 

I've had good experience with mango's xml package, it's fast and easy to 
use. I believe you could generate ddoc documentation with it and there 
are some examples in SVN. Another library is TinyXPath, with contains 
TinyXml (port from C++). This is not sax-based as is mango's xml 
package, but still convenient and has good documentation (you can use 
the C++ docs).

jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:

There's a whole list of candidates at Wiki4D:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?AllLibraries/XmlLibraries

But I suspect that others that replied are right and you're probably looking for
the SAX parser in Mango (http://www.dsource.org/projects/mango).

Many of the projects on the Wiki4D list probably aren't active and would require
some updating to work with D 1.0+.

jcc7

Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Jan Hanselaer wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I need to parse an xml-document so I hoped there would be support for that 
 in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.
 
 There probably are some libraries for it, so my question is ... anyone of 
 you has some experience in parsing Xml-files?
 What library did you use? For me it's very important that there is some 
 documentation available.
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 Jan 
 
 

Another option:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/yage/browser/trunk/src/yage/core/xml.d

http://www.dsource.org/projects/arclib/browser/trunk/arc/xml

works fine for me so I can't complain.

~ Clay

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Jan Hanselaer wrote:
 I hoped there would be support for that 
 in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.
 

I would personally like to thank Walter, the Tango team, God, Satan, 
Jesus, Allah, Muhammed, all the Buddhas throughout history, Brahman and 
Ahura Mazda for this fact.

  - Gregor Richards

"Aziz K." <aziz.kerim gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:22:20 +0200, Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org>  
wrote:

 Jan Hanselaer wrote:
 I hoped there would be support for that in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.

 I would personally like to thank Walter, the Tango team, God, Satan,  
 Jesus, Allah, Muhammed, all the Buddhas throughout history, Brahman and  
 Ahura Mazda for this fact.

   - Gregor Richards

What?! You worthless, blasphemous creature deserving of eternal punishment  
in hell where C++ is the only permissible language to torture your  
dark-sided soul! Besides the one and only true God is Huitzilopochtli.  
Nobody can dispute this, because I and many others have witnessed his  
greatness as He answered our humble prayers in our direst times.  
Huitzilopochtli is a just and loving God. If you want to be saved you only  
have to accept Him in your heart and must not ascribe partners to Him, for  
He is our only Lord, our Sustainer, the Light, the Truth. How can you not  
accept this free gift? Don't succumb to your haughtiness as so have whole  
nations, which were destroyed by our Lord because they sinned against  
their own souls and transgressed the divine laws made clear to them. They  
have witnessed the signs of the Lord but they rejected them and turned it  
to mockery. Verily, to thy Lord is the return. If you choose any other  
religion than submission to Huitzilopochtli, never will it be accepted  
 from you and the Fire shall be your abode.

PS.: Allah and Muhammad seem to be redundant in your list; you already  
thanked Satan.

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Aziz K. wrote:
 On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:22:20 +0200, Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> 
 wrote:
 
 Jan Hanselaer wrote:
 I hoped there would be support for that in the Phobos Runtime Library.
 Obviously that's not the case.

 I would personally like to thank Walter, the Tango team, God, Satan, 
 Jesus, Allah, Muhammed, all the Buddhas throughout history, Brahman 
 and Ahura Mazda for this fact.

   - Gregor Richards

 

 
 PS.: Allah and Muhammad seem to be redundant in your list; you already 
 thanked Satan.

Joke or not, that comment is way out of line.  Go sit in the corner for 
an hour and don't post crap like that here ever again.

--bb

"Aziz K." <aziz.kerim gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:54:44 +0200, Bill Baxter  
<dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> wrote:
 Joke or not, that comment is way out of line.  Go sit in the corner for  
 an hour and don't post crap like that here ever again.

 --bb


Thanks for the rebuke, but no, I'm not going to sit in the corner and  
reconsider what I said. I understand that from a "the world is full of  
love and sunshine"-view that little sentence seems to be very  
inappropriate and hurtful. But as hurtful as it may be to a Muslim, it's  
unfortunately the truth. If someone accused my father of being a rapist,  
of course I would be extremely upset and feel angry about that insult. But  
if all the historical evidence is incriminating and points toward the  
guiltiness of my father, well then I have to cope with that emotional  
distress and severe my ties from him.
I have the utmost disrespect for Islam because I was born into it and I  
grew up viewing the world with islamic goggles wrapped tight around my  
head. Do you think I've had a choice in this? I was indoctrinated with the  
beliefs that Allah is the only true God and that Mohammad was His last,  
noble Messenger and that you would roast forever in hell if you didn't  
believe that. It's obvious that you can't choose your parents, so I  
utterly despise it when people think they have to force the religious  
baloney down the throat of their children, the way their own parents did  
it to them. Once you're born a Muslim you'll remain one until your death.  
There is no such thing as the concept of religious privatism in islamic  
families like you have it in enlightened societies. You have to carry that  
stupid religious label around you even after you have made the intelligent  
decision to free yourself from the mind slavery of Islam. It's a huge  
taboo to ask tough questions about Islam that might threaten the faith. An  
even bigger taboo is it to leave the religion altogether. All hell would  
break loose if you announced your apostasy to your family. The best that  
could happen is ostracism, and the worst being mercilessly killed for  
having dared to use your basic human right of freedom of conscience. Even  
moderate parents would reject you or try to bring you back to the faith,  
because you know, there's an everlasting punishment awaiting you after  
your death, and they wouldn't like the thought of you being barbecued by  
their merciful Lord. It's certainly not easy to be a closet apostate in a  
muslim family.
Despite my abhorrence of Islam I acknowledge that the Muslim communities  
are hugely and immensely diverse. Most of them have a rich and great  
culture, but alas, as I see it, it is stained with the stupidity and  
savagery of Islam. I'm very critical of the ideology and I make a  
distinction between it and the followers. I'm the last person to demonize  
a whole group of people and say that they are all evil and potential  
terrorists. I don't have a problem with them practicing their religion  
privately and in Mosques as long as they fully subscribe to the humanistic  
values Europe has gained through the enlightenment process. And such a  
thing has still to happen in Muslim countries and in the minds of the  
Muslims living in secular countries. They don't even like the slightest  
negative criticism from a reformist Muslim or Non-Muslim regarding the  
Prophet and his Message. A lot of deluded reformist Muslims live in  
secular countries, and even there they often have to fear for their lives  
(like Irshad Manji for example). When they live in islamic countries all  
the islamic authorities can do is censor their books, lock them up in a  
cell or worse execute them. And all the Muslims in the secular countries  
can do is to get aggressively huffy when someone points out the idiocies  
and inhumanities in the islamic doctrine.

I know it's hard to understand that post scriptum one-liner, but I and  
many other ex-Muslims are fed up with the ever recurring BS phrase "Islam  
is a tolerant/peaceful religion." Well it is not. Mohammad carried out  
over 70 raids on caravans routing out of and to Mecca in order to support  
the weak economy in Medinah. Once he became stronger he attacked the  
villages of Jewish tribes, massacred ca. 600 men and pubertal boys (of the  
Banu Quraizah) who were his prisoners of war, the women and children were  
not harmed but were considered booties of war like cattle, gold etc. and  
evenly distributed among the army of the Prophet and one fifth was always  
assigned to him and his sky-daddy Allah (8:41). The apologetic view  
regarding this is that they received a punishment according to their own  
book by a jewish judge from their amidst, which of course suddenly acquits  
him of this unbelievable crime. Mohammad (or his alter ego Allah)  
sanctioned the right to enjoy those whom thy right hand possesses out of  
the prisoners of war (33:50). This means it was legitimate for Mohammad  
and his cult members to have sex with the enslaved women whose husbands  
and fathers were killed in war. Now tell me, which woman with self-worth  
and sanity would happily consent to intercourse with the killer of her  
relatives? Would it matter to throw in the allegation that Mohammad had  
acted in self-defence in those wars? I don't think so.
He married a 6 year-old and consumated the marriage when she was 9, and  
even if you want to dispute all the evidence in the Hadith testifying to  
this fact, there is a worryingly large amount of Muslims who defend this  
devilish act with all sorts of mental gymnastics. They really have no  
qualms about a fifty years old man having intercourse with an innocent  
child.
Now if these kind of things don't disgust you I don't know what does.  
Non-Muslims feel extremely uncomfortable with such statements, even if it  
comes from the mouth of an ex-Muslim. There's an organisation in Germany,  
the Central Council of Ex-Muslims, which was founded by the exile-Iranian  
and dissident Mina Ahadi in the beginning of this year. While Mina was  
away from home, her husband and 5 other guests were arrested and  
mercilessly executed by the iranian version of the Gestapo. She had to  
flee Iran but she didn't remain inactive and founded an organisation with  
a group of other ex-Muslims that is so deeply needed as a public voice of  
all the ex-Muslims.

Of course this isn't the right place to discuss religious issues, but I  
really felt the need to explain myself, so that the D community can  
understand me better.

Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:

Well said, sir; and fully agreed upon.

However, the religious zealots get all excited and anxious when such things are
said, preventing us from discussing D; so exists the age old convention of
refraining from bringing up such things in public forum; so continues this
mental disorder; so we grieve.

If you bring it up in a more appropriate place, the religious will fight or
flee - progressing nothing; while the aware will agree - progressing nothing. 
This has always perplexed us, and I'm at a loss for words as to how one might
overcome it.

Shall we abandon the topic on these forums?

Sincerely,
Dan

Aziz K. Wrote:
 On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:54:44 +0200, Bill Baxter  
 <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> wrote:
 Joke or not, that comment is way out of line.  Go sit in the corner for  
 an hour and don't post crap like that here ever again.

 --bb

 
 
 Thanks for the rebuke, but no, I'm not going to sit in the corner and  
 reconsider what I said. I understand that from a "the world is full of  
 love and sunshine"-view that little sentence seems to be very  
 inappropriate and hurtful. But as hurtful as it may be to a Muslim, it's  
 unfortunately the truth. If someone accused my father of being a rapist,  
 of course I would be extremely upset and feel angry about that insult. But  
 if all the historical evidence is incriminating and points toward the  
 guiltiness of my father, well then I have to cope with that emotional  
 distress and severe my ties from him.
 I have the utmost disrespect for Islam because I was born into it and I  
 grew up viewing the world with islamic goggles wrapped tight around my  
 head. Do you think I've had a choice in this? I was indoctrinated with the  
 beliefs that Allah is the only true God and that Mohammad was His last,  
 noble Messenger and that you would roast forever in hell if you didn't  
 believe that. It's obvious that you can't choose your parents, so I  
 utterly despise it when people think they have to force the religious  
 baloney down the throat of their children, the way their own parents did  
 it to them. Once you're born a Muslim you'll remain one until your death.  
 There is no such thing as the concept of religious privatism in islamic  
 families like you have it in enlightened societies. You have to carry that  
 stupid religious label around you even after you have made the intelligent  
 decision to free yourself from the mind slavery of Islam. It's a huge  
 taboo to ask tough questions about Islam that might threaten the faith. An  
 even bigger taboo is it to leave the religion altogether. All hell would  
 break loose if you announced your apostasy to your family. The best that  
 could happen is ostracism, and the worst being mercilessly killed for  
 having dared to use your basic human right of freedom of conscience. Even  
 moderate parents would reject you or try to bring you back to the faith,  
 because you know, there's an everlasting punishment awaiting you after  
 your death, and they wouldn't like the thought of you being barbecued by  
 their merciful Lord. It's certainly not easy to be a closet apostate in a  
 muslim family.
 Despite my abhorrence of Islam I acknowledge that the Muslim communities  
 are hugely and immensely diverse. Most of them have a rich and great  
 culture, but alas, as I see it, it is stained with the stupidity and  
 savagery of Islam. I'm very critical of the ideology and I make a  
 distinction between it and the followers. I'm the last person to demonize  
 a whole group of people and say that they are all evil and potential  
 terrorists. I don't have a problem with them practicing their religion  
 privately and in Mosques as long as they fully subscribe to the humanistic  
 values Europe has gained through the enlightenment process. And such a  
 thing has still to happen in Muslim countries and in the minds of the  
 Muslims living in secular countries. They don't even like the slightest  
 negative criticism from a reformist Muslim or Non-Muslim regarding the  
 Prophet and his Message. A lot of deluded reformist Muslims live in  
 secular countries, and even there they often have to fear for their lives  
 (like Irshad Manji for example). When they live in islamic countries all  
 the islamic authorities can do is censor their books, lock them up in a  
 cell or worse execute them. And all the Muslims in the secular countries  
 can do is to get aggressively huffy when someone points out the idiocies  
 and inhumanities in the islamic doctrine.
 
 I know it's hard to understand that post scriptum one-liner, but I and  
 many other ex-Muslims are fed up with the ever recurring BS phrase "Islam  
 is a tolerant/peaceful religion." Well it is not. Mohammad carried out  
 over 70 raids on caravans routing out of and to Mecca in order to support  
 the weak economy in Medinah. Once he became stronger he attacked the  
 villages of Jewish tribes, massacred ca. 600 men and pubertal boys (of the  
 Banu Quraizah) who were his prisoners of war, the women and children were  
 not harmed but were considered booties of war like cattle, gold etc. and  
 evenly distributed among the army of the Prophet and one fifth was always  
 assigned to him and his sky-daddy Allah (8:41). The apologetic view  
 regarding this is that they received a punishment according to their own  
 book by a jewish judge from their amidst, which of course suddenly acquits  
 him of this unbelievable crime. Mohammad (or his alter ego Allah)  
 sanctioned the right to enjoy those whom thy right hand possesses out of  
 the prisoners of war (33:50). This means it was legitimate for Mohammad  
 and his cult members to have sex with the enslaved women whose husbands  
 and fathers were killed in war. Now tell me, which woman with self-worth  
 and sanity would happily consent to intercourse with the killer of her  
 relatives? Would it matter to throw in the allegation that Mohammad had  
 acted in self-defence in those wars? I don't think so.
 He married a 6 year-old and consumated the marriage when she was 9, and  
 even if you want to dispute all the evidence in the Hadith testifying to  
 this fact, there is a worryingly large amount of Muslims who defend this  
 devilish act with all sorts of mental gymnastics. They really have no  
 qualms about a fifty years old man having intercourse with an innocent  
 child.
 Now if these kind of things don't disgust you I don't know what does.  
 Non-Muslims feel extremely uncomfortable with such statements, even if it  
 comes from the mouth of an ex-Muslim. There's an organisation in Germany,  
 the Central Council of Ex-Muslims, which was founded by the exile-Iranian  
 and dissident Mina Ahadi in the beginning of this year. While Mina was  
 away from home, her husband and 5 other guests were arrested and  
 mercilessly executed by the iranian version of the Gestapo. She had to  
 flee Iran but she didn't remain inactive and founded an organisation with  
 a group of other ex-Muslims that is so deeply needed as a public voice of  
 all the ex-Muslims.
 
 Of course this isn't the right place to discuss religious issues, but I  
 really felt the need to explain myself, so that the D community can  
 understand me better.