The fact that the revision number is less than 1.0 doesn't mean anything. There is nothing to stop alpha code being added to CPAN with a version number of 1.0 or higher. The number of revisions and the time that the module has been in CPAN are better indicators of whether the module is well maintained and therefore more likely to be stable.

According to the README for libxml-perl, XML::Parser::PerlSAX is BETA: "interfaces are stable but there may still be bugs".

John.
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