sax has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.6.0). DepScope rates its health at 87/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of sax?

The latest version of sax is 1.6.0, released 2026-03-17.

Does sax have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of sax.

No, sax is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.6.0 (2026-03-17).

What are alternatives to sax?

Popular alternatives to sax in npm include: semver, minimatch, ansi-styles, brace-expansion, strip-ansi.

What license does sax use?

sax is licensed under BlueOak-1.0.0.

sax

npmv1.6.0

An evented streaming XML parser in JavaScript

License BlueOak-1.0.0permissive53 versions1 maintainers0 deps71,651,464 weekly dl

ssh://[email protected]/isaacs/sax-js

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 87/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

21.7 KBminified

7.4 KB gzipped

0 direct dependencies

side effects

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/sax (DefinitelyTyped)

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

Contributors (12m)

GitHub stars

0

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.77critical

Download trend

stable(+1.1%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

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