Dear maintainers, I was curious about the latest updates of Xerces in the GitHub branches but wondered if all tests of "xml-schema-1.1-tests" were green. But there was no script to trigger the tests and all tests were in a different branch than XercesImp, therefore I was tempted to bring them together. Usually, I work with Netbeans and IntelliJ IDE and love to open a project directly from its directory, doing out-of-the-box builds, tests and debugging with a mouse click. The existing ANT build environment has its usability drawbacks here with my IDEs. It might help to embrace new developers when lowering the burden of building & debugging, by switching to Maven and giving also a chance to clean up the project a bit after some decades.
Therefore, I did this week an initial Prototype on a Maven project structure (as stated on the user list) and also enabled the GitHub cloud build and test on every push. The project runs now the Maven build & test with JDK 8 and the bundled PsychoPath XPath 2.0 processor <https://github.com/svanteschubert/xerces-j/tree/maven-prototype_JDK8-PsychoPath1.2.1> but test issues have been revealed: again the JDK Xerces is used for DOM this time <https://github.com/svanteschubert/xerces-j/actions/runs/10854425659/job/30124830967#step:4:462>. I fixed in the past some similar issue, where a System property wasn't set. My question: *In what state is the branch "xml-schema-1.1-tests", were all tests green? Have some more System variables to be set ahead?* *Perhaps someone with a background in the tests could take a look in the IDE Maven environment <https://github.com/svanteschubert/xerces-j/tree/maven-prototype_JDK8-PsychoPath1.2.1>? All tests should run smoothly, shouldn't they?* Another even bigger problem is the missing sources of PsychoPath and its API changes, its Eclipse home <https://wiki.eclipse.org/PsychoPathXPathProcessor/> seems abandoned - more details are already stated on the user's list <https://lists.apache.org/thread/5hfz73xnzjb6dzlq3rm4tjxvsn02gxt3>. *It would be helpful if someone involved in XPath earlier might overtake switching to the latest PsychoPath version (after the tests are running)* - as there is a GitHub repo <https://github.com/xercesj/xpath20>, which mentions: "*This XPath 2.0 processor, was originally designed and developed by Andrea Bittau, which he donated to Eclipse Foundation. The XPath 2.0 processor, was later somewhat improved at Eclipse Foundation, to bring its compliance as with the W3C XPath 2.0 test suite.*" As Xerces depends on PsychoPath, *it would be nice to see how it runs with the Test Suite*. *Where has Eclipse placed the sources?* My work here was a bit time-boxed, unfortunately, I need to attend to paid projects, but I am willing to assist in the transition to Maven and give other reviews. Meanwhile, I am awaiting your responses, esp. hope for assistance on the "bold" tasks above and believe that all tests should be green before the next release. ;-) A nice week-end to all of you, Svante PS: It would be nice if there is again an ApacheCon in Europe and to talk about some of the above face2face. I am located in Berlin, and currently, I am near Hamburg.
