> The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them, or ... It sounds scary. I hope he meant core

> The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them, or ... It sounds scary. I hope he meant core changes, not API > ... or at least replace them with something that generates less security bugs. Increasing the capabilities of XML in the browser runs counter to that goal. > By "XML parts of our pipeline" I mean "everything implemented using libxml and libxslt". I have one example. Have you known HTML parser is faster than XML [1]? Yes, awfully bloated HTML parser [2] is faster. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481080 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481080 [2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html