State of XML support in Scala 2.9.x

Question

I\'m currently starting to look into using Scala\'s XML support for business critical processes. In that regard I would like to know what the current state of the standard X

Answer 1

Let me answer this way:

• Open XML issues (those assigned to the XML Team -- there might be others)
• Alternative XML libraries in Scala

Or, putting it into words, many people are not satisfied. After all, people are writing full blown alternatives instead of trying to "fix" the library. And, speaking of fixing, I had a fix which turned an operation from O(n^2) to O(n) submitted for so long that, when someone opened the very same issue again, I didn't even remember having opened it before.

Mind you, Lift uses standard library XML, and, as far as I know, so do most of the other web frameworks (I suspect Play doesn't), so it's not like it's unusable.