[Yanel-dev] Multiple xml-apis libs version

[Guillaume Déflache]

Hi!

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> I just noticed that there are multiple xml-apis libs within WEB-INF/lib.

I am actually not sure we even need one XML APIs library: AFAICS Java 5 
provide everything it contains through its bundled JAXP 1.3 ( cf. 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/xml/jaxp/ReleaseNotes_150.html#identifying 
): SAX 2.0.2, DOM 3, and the JAXP API (javax.**, which should only be 
loaded from the JDK unless you explicitely want a new JAXP, which you 
then should probably add as an endorsed library as it is part of the JDK).

Of course if any XML-related library (Xerces, Xalan, Saxon, ...) needs a 
higher version of the API, then hopefully it is defined correctly as a 
Maven dependency, and if the dependency is superfluous because of Java 5 
or wrong we may want to try the exclusion mechanism here as well.

WDYT?


On an unrelated note, Java 5 seems to provide a XInclude implementation 
that we perhaps could use instead/in addition of our own (very 
incomplete) one.

Cheers,
    Guillaume