XML::Smart support

splintor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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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Re: XML::Smart support by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 18, 2008 at 08:10 UTC
More interesting than the last perlmonks visit is probably the bug tracker. It has 8 "new" and one "open" bugs, some of which are as old as three years. All resolved bugs are 3 years old. I interpret that as "no work done in three years", which is nearly equivalent to "dead". You could try to contact the author via email, maybe he wants to revive the module?	[reply]
Re: XML::Smart support by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 18, 2008 at 08:12 UTC
Did you ask the author?	[reply]