What's the best library for parsing RSS/Atom in Perl?

I'm not sure it's ever been the "recommended library". If I know which kind of feed I need to parse, I use XML::RSS or XML::Atom as appropriate, but if (as is more likely) I just know it's a web feed, I use XML::Feed.

Adding an example of using XML::Feed as requested..

use XML::Feed;my $feed = XML::Feed->parse(\$string_containing_feed);foreach ($feed->entries) {  print $_->title, "\n";  print $_->content->body, "\n";}

This is all pretty much copied from the module documentation.

If XML::RSS::Parser works for you then use it. I've used XML::Parser to deal with RSS but I had narrow requirements and XML::Parser was already installed.

Just because something has been updated in a few years doesn't mean that it doesn't work anymore; I don't think the various RSS/Atom specs have changed recently so there's no need for the parser to change.

I actually like to avoid domain-specific XML parsers these days and just use XPath for everything. That way I only have to remember one API. (Unless it's a huge XML, then I'll use an event-based parser like XML::Parser.)

So using XML::XPath, I can grab a bunch of stuff from an RSS file like this:

my $rss = get_rss();my $xp = XML::XPath->new( xml => $rss );my $stories = $xp->find( '/rss/channel/item' );foreach my $story( $stories->get_nodelist ) {    my $url   = $xp->find( 'link',  $story )->string_value;    my $title = $xp->find( 'title', $story )->string_value;    ...}

Not the prettiest code in the world, but it works.