I'm 100% for removing -- I can't think of any recent tools that even
support xml. Thanks for making the PR!

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:01 AM Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Way back in 2011, when the first version of the IPython Notebook was being
> written, there was an option to store notebooks as XML. JSON was chosen as
> the default, and has always been the format all of our applications use.
> However, the code to read XML files stayed around, and recently Danor Cohen
> pointed out that it is vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
>
> I am proposing to *remove this code* rather than maintain it. None of our
> applications call it, and I'm not aware of anyone else using it. The XML
> format is, as far as I know, an abandoned concept.
>
> If you are using that code (nbformat.v2.*_xml), and you can't practically
> move away from it, now would be a good time to take over maintenance of it.
> ;-)
>
> The removal PR is here: https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat/pull/133
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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