XML in Octave

[Bill Denney]

Alois has made a good summary of what is available for XML in Octave 
(http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?XML-tools-for-Octave), and Andy even 
wrote something 
(http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2006-June/000315.html).  
What is the status of it being included in Octave or Octave forge?  I'm 
asking because I'm wanting to try to write an SVG backend for the handle 
graphics, and having an xml parser and unparser would prevent a lot of 
duplication.

I glanced at the trees for both, and the only thing I found was xmlread 
in forge which doesn't seem to be very documented.

Bill