I feel, this may be more about Mozilla trying to get rid of XML at all. Because, why would something simple as RSS be a burden to maintain? The code has been w

I feel, this may be more about Mozilla trying to get rid of XML at all. Because, why would something simple as RSS be a burden to maintain? The code has been written (!), the format well understood, the years gone should have ironed out the bugs, so what could be the problem? The only difficult thing to maintain may be an XML parser, but that is also there since the Netscape days and, for RSS, you don't need current XML technologies (XPath 2+), you are fine with XPath1.