> I've filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24600 to get assistance on the ways out.
Update: infra team updated maven-metadata.xml at Central, so it is valid now. See https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xalan/xalan/maven-metadata.xml Alexander, Dominique, Could you please check if the issue of "Failed to collect dependencies at xalan:xalan:jar:[2.7.2]" is resolved now? Vladimir