Brief answer as I am traveling: there are no alternatives for many things libxml2 does, especially in the C only world, and you simply can't destroy the huge ecosystem that is built around it. Also, as far as I know, there's are no alternative relaxng validators (which is being used recently in PoDoFo), either in C or in C++, so I am not currently searching for an alternative at all. My 2 cents: at some point a new maintainer will be found, no reasons to worry too much right now: XML is not evolving that much in the foreseeable future.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:53 F. E. <exler7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello podofo users, > > recently the last maintainer of LibXml2 announced their retirement from > the project: > > https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libxml2-No-Maintainer > > Since Podofo 1.x also uses libxml2, and using an outdating xml parsing > library posing security concerns the longer it is used, are there any > considerations as to whether Podofo should stick with libxml2 or switch to > another XML library in the (near) future? > > Regards, > > F.E. > _______________________________________________ > Podofo-users mailing list > Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users >
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