XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Adam Constabaris wrote:
> This isn't about XOM as such, since it's about Maven 2's dependency 
> resolution mechanism; the short version is that the POM in the ibiblio 
> respository for XOM 1.1 references jaxen, although a jaxen JAR on the 
> classpath is neither a compile-time nor a runtime dependency for XOM.

What if I just removed the reference to Jaxen from the project.xml file? 
Is that likely to break anything for anyone? XOM does depend on jaxen, 
but not all of it; and it does so in a fairly unusual way. The Ant build 
file grabs Jaxen straight out of CVS.

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