Bug 17709 – std.xml doesn't parse the root element

import std.xml; import std.stdio; void main() { auto parser = new DocumentParser("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><device></device>"); parser.onStartTag["device"] = (ElementParser parser) { writeln("device"); }; parser.parse(); } That code does not print "device", However... import std.xml; import std.stdio; void main() { auto parser = new DocumentParser("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><device><peripheral></peripheral></device>"); parser.onStartTag["peripheral"] = (ElementParser parser) { writeln("peripheral"); }; parser.parse(); } that code will print "peripheral".

Seems to me, that the reason is, that the constructor of DocumentParser allready partially parses the xml document, namely until the root element is found. At that time parser.onStartTag["device"] is not yet defined and therefore not called. I don't understand std.xml good enough to fix this though. And the docs tell, that std.xml will be replaced by something better sooner or later. Therefore I don't know if it's worth it to fix this anyway.

std.xml is deprecated since about a year. Closing this as WONTFIX.