I want to use XML::Smart as it can work in Pure Perl, and it keeps the order of elements.

However, I see that it wasn't updated since 2004, and the author (Graciliano Monteiro Passos) hasn't been to PerlMonks.org since 2005. Is someone looking after this module? Do you think it is safe to use such an orphaned module?

I found one problem with it - XML::Smart::Parser, which is a changed copy of XML::Parser::Lite, doesn't work well in taint mode. The problem was recently solved in XML::Parser::Lite (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=747302&group_id=66000&atid=513020), but was not imported to XML::Smart::Parser.

Thanks in advance,
splintor

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