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Steve Loughran wrote:
> Prashant wrote:
>> Is there any reason why ANT 1.7 still distributes Xerces 2.6.2 in its 
>> lib [1] ? While the current release version of Xerces is 2.8 with 
>> support for DOM Level 3, Schema Validation, Not to mention the bug 
>> fixes.
>
> As of 30 seconds ago, it distributes v 2.8.1. Version 2.6.2 does do 
> XSD validation BTW, which is why Ant1.7 has a <schemavalidate> task.

Ah, yes. I should have said JAXP 1.3 Schema Validation API. The thing 
thats returned by SchemaFactory.newSchema()[1]

But whats the reason to sticking to Xerces 2.6.2 ? Anything more than 
"Don't fix what not broken" ?

-Prashant
[1]:jaxp: Fast and Easy XML Processing 
<https://jaxp.dev.java.net/article/jaxp-1_3-article.html>
>
>>
>> Last time i tried to compile code that uses the DOM Level 3 API, the 
>> xml-apis.jar in ant/lib got in the way and i had to use 
>> java.endorsed.dirs mechanism in ANT_OPTS.
>
> Ah, joy, the java endorsed dirs mechanism. If that is causing a 
> problem for you, then the version of xml-apis in ant/lib is moot; you 
> need to get a better version into an endorsed directory.
>
>
>>
>> -Prashant
>> [1]:http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/lib/
>> PS: I have not downloaded the 1.7, i am not sure if the ANT downloads 
>> later versions of Xerces from repositories at build time.
>
> Cant do that, because in the Maven repositories
>
> -xml-apis is at 2.6.0
> -xerces is at 2.8.1, and has a dependency on xml-apis 1.3.03.
>
> We keep it under SCM, as it is the only thing needed at boot time. 
> Historically it was also there because there was no bundled Java 
> parser, and when one did come, it was only Crimson. But for the 1.5+ 
> world, we could think about doing a no-parser distro. Not for 1.7, 
> there will be too many surprises related to manifests. Something to 
> think of.
>
> -Steve
>
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