Feature-complete XML implementation? OMG!

Sometimes, you just have to read or write XML. As a Node developer, every single time I need to do anything with XML, I only find XML libraries that are:

• Incomplete implementations; yes I really do need XML namespaces and CDATA.
• Bindings to native libraries that either don't build on all platforms or segfault
• Leaky-abstraction Wrappers
• Riddled with three-year-old bugs

This may be hubris, but I want to create an XML library that:

• Passes all conformance tests; why even release and XML library before then?
• Supports all the functionality you usually need when working with XML; you shouldn't need a whole suite of tools lacking design fidelity. To me, this means:
  • A streaming XML parser (that can also take strings)
  • A streaming XML writer (that can also create strings)
  • A DOM
  • XPath
• Is pure JS; JavaScript is totally powerful enough to implement XML; why bring C into this?
• Ignores the needs of ancient JS implementations; ain't nobody got time for that, and browsers have their own DOM implementation anyway.

Once these core goals are completed, then it's a foundation you can reliably wrap with conveniences without compromising on XML compliance. By conveniences, I mean:

1. A fluent API wrapper around the DOM
2. Error correction for less-strict parsing
3. Maybe a native XSLT engine?

Here are the project tasks in priority order (subject to change):

Prior to 1.0 release:

• Streaming XML parser
• Streaming XML serializer
• DOM level 1
• DOM level 2
• DOM level 3
• XPath 1.0
• XPath 2.0

Future plans:

• Fluent API
• XSLT