Comment by xienze

> They still need to fix the security issues everyone reimplements every time such as local file disclosure via DTDs, exploding documents due to entity expansion and so on.

Who is doing this reimplementation? You're supposed to be using mature, battle-tested libraries for parsing these formats. Writing your own parser for just about any format is a fool's errand when good implementations that have already addressed these issues exist. Even a simple format like JSON is not immune to performance, safety, and correctness pitfalls.