Re: Re obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]

Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Dear Antites:
> Yes, the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of 
> our external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using 
> in your 1.6 release.  (big thanks to Stefan for kicking me awake on this)

So we Cocoon'ers are not at alone having troubles with the xml-apis.jar
from time to time :)

> If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply bundle 
> the xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you are including 
> (as someone already suggested).  This is not an official xml-commons 
> release, but it is properly version matched to that Xerces, and will 
> have better support for more recent versions of Xalan as well.  The code 
> that generated that xml-apis.jar *should* have been tagged with the same 
> tag as the xml-xerces code that generated that release, although I 
> haven't checked this specific build yet.  Note also that this is 
> xml-commons/java/external code from the tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch, *not* 
> from the HEAD of xml-commons.

This might already have been brought up but what about adding a version
number to the xml-apis.jar? I guess we (at Cocoon) spend quite an amount
of time finding bugs that actually were nothing more than mismachted
xerces/xalan/xml-api jars.
--
Torsten