> The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them, or ...
It sounds scary. I hope he meant core changes, not API
> ... or at least replace them with something that generates less security bugs. Increasing the capabilities of XML in the browser runs counter to that goal.
> By "XML parts of our pipeline" I mean "everything implemented using libxml and libxslt".
I have one example. Have you known HTML parser is faster than XML [1]? Yes, awfully bloated HTML parser [2] is faster.