Comment 4 for bug 2002576

It looks like converting xml into a dict is also cumbersome using lxml. There are several attempts here:
https://gist.github.com/jacobian/795571

I'd like to open this MIR back up as it seems like it is going to be more error prone to code this using lxml.

I'm comfortable that the upstream project is actively being maintained. The project only has one file, xmltodict.py, that is 544 lines long. They also have a long history of releases up through 2022 [1]. And the maintainer seems to be active with responding to issues [2].

[1] https://pypi.org/project/xmltodict/#history
[2] https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict/issues