For the last half a year I have been looking into the removal of XMLNode and XMLDocument classes from the XIFF library in favour of XML class. So far being unsuccessful in this due to the time constrains, I am hoping the bigger community to jump in. Biggest worries are coming from the name space handling.
The upgrade will make the code more readable, perform faster and result a smaller file size of the complied application.
Recently all the Flex dependencies have been removed, which brings another dependency, AS3Crypto, a library which is used for several kind of enc-/decrypting and hashing purposes. XIFF uses it now for Base64 encoding/decoding and in the near future for MD5 hashing (as in Digest-MD5 authentication method).
Call for examples is still on as announced some time ago.
The feature wish list is still valid as well.