XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

Thanks,

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold
<elharo AT ibiblio.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > When running against the latest jar (1.2.3) I need Xerces and possibly
> other
> > jars. Could you please indicate which are required (or alternatively
> perhaps
> > package them in the distro).
>
> XOM should work with just the single XOM jar and any reasonably modern
> JDK, though as Michael Kay keeps pointing out the parsers bundled with
> the JDK are often buggy. You'd likely do better to add a more recent
> Xerces (2.6.1 or later) to your classpath. However that;s not
> required. I've gone to great lengths to strip out dependencies on 3rd
> party libraries from XOM.
>

We solved the immediate problem by adding Xerces 2.8.0 dependency to the
pom.xml without apparent side effects (I have sometimes had problems in the
past with different versions of Xerces


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