Apache Xerces2 J

Save location (file, line, col) information on DOM Nodes

We need a feature where the file/line/col information is attached to every DOM node. Like the DOMAddLines sample, but as a built in always-available feature you can turn on.  This will then allow Apache ws-schema to provide access to the Read more

ClassCastException in SAXParser constructor if Xerces comes from different thread-context class loaders

MCVE is following, but the full story is like this: Gradle has Ant integrated on its class loader. Ant in its org.apache.tools.ant.util.JAXPUtils.getNSParserFactory uses javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance to create a SAXParserFactory and remembers it for future usage Read more

We need a feature where the file/line/col information is attached to every DOM node. This will then allow Apache ws-schema to provide access to the file/line/col for every XML Schema component.  That in turn enables our Apache Daffodil DFDL schema Read more

Save/Restore serialized "compiled" parser-validator

-Xbootclasspath/p is no longer a supported option.

Sure, you are right, Elliotte! Still, the sum of all Java vendors' support schedules constrains us, and Oracle likely still holds quite a piece of this pie. After overthinking my previous comment, I would prefer the second choice allowing any build Read more

Oracle did some heavy restructuring between the two LTS JDK 8 and JDK 11. Such as removing access to tools.jar, limiting direct access to internal classes, and introducing modules. Many APIs had to be changed, like for JAVADOC the usage of taglets, Read more

,/build.sh test on Java 9 or later gives: {}test:      [echo] Performing sanity test for Xerces-J 2.12.3 ...      [echo] Using classpath='./tools/xml-apis.jar:./tools/resolver.jar:./tools/serializer.jar:./build/classes'      [echo] Running Read more