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Libxml2 Becomes Officially Unmaintained After Maintainer Steps Down (linuxiac.com)
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In mid-September, we reported that Nick Wellnhofer, the long-time maintainer of the widely used XML parsing library libxml2, planned to step down from the project. A few days ago, that change became official.

When looking at one of the latest commits in the project’s GitLab repository, you can now see the following notice:

“This project is unmaintained and has known security issues (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/346). It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data.”

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago (16 children)

I hope this is a nail in the coffin for xml. It's just so unpleasant to work with, even through great libraries.

[–] expr@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

It's great for non-HTML markup, like https://hyperview.org/.

A lot of the hate is undeserved. It has had awful paradigms built around it (like SOAP), but that doesn't make XML inherently bad by any means.

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