The point was about the importance of availability.

> Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No.

Cars in general use, extensively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR

Great, then we have someone with both resources and an incentive to write and maintain an XML parser with strict availability guarantees.

Automotive companies pay big buck to vendors who supply certified tools/libraries, because getting stuff certified is lot of work/time. This also means that those stuff are often outdated, and a pain to work with, yet their vendors are not expected to function as charities, as often expected by FLOSS authors, esp. when releasing their code under BSD/MIT licenses and then getting eaten by the sharks.

AUTOSAR xml-s are compile-time/integration time toolchain metadata mostly in my memory.

Yet this is off topic for the libxml funding/bug debate.

For embedded mission critical C libxml is surely unsuitable, just like 99.99% of the open source third party code. Also unneeded. If crashes the app on the developer machine or in the build pipeline if it runs out of memory? Who cares (from a safety point of view)? That has nothing to do with availability of safety critical systems in the car.