Removal of xmlif from xmlto

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Hi all!

I have recently took over maintenance (both in upstream and
downstream) of xmlto package.

After going through what's needed and learning more about the package,
we have figured that there is a piece of software called 'xmlif'
bundled with the xmlto software (not only the package) and compiled
with the xmlto.

Problem is that the original creator and neither of the maintainers
really made that piece of software and after a bit of more research it
seems that 'xmlif' has its own upstream which seems to be somewhat
active (latest commit 9 months ago). https://gitlab.com/esr/xmlif

After further discussion, it doesn't really make sense to have the
source code of xmlif duplicated in codebase of xmlto when there is
active upstream of xmlif itself. I'd love to remove the xmlif part of
xmlto, but there are two problematic parts with doing so.

Afaik, xmlif is not packaged in fedora (nor other distributions like
Arch) in itself and since it is not really a dependency of xmlto (but
just somewhat related to each other from what I have learned) I don't
know whether anyone actually depends on having xmlif in Fedora -
meaning I don't know whether I should create and maintain new xmlif
package *before* removing it from xmlto.

Secondly, based on xmlif readme in upstream, the xmlto package is
shipping an outdated version of xmlif, which also seems to be breaking
XML language standards. This, *I think* would also mean, that just
shipping up to date xmlif might break something that depends on the
older version.


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