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Elliotte Rusty Harold resolved XERCESJ-1657.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Update website
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> Key: XERCESJ-1657
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1657
> Project: Xerces2-J
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Ortwin Glueck
> Priority: Major
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> The Xerces Website's first sentence is: Welcome to the future!
> This suggests that Xerces is a modern XML parser that is better than the
> JDK's built-in parser. However, the last Xerces release was in 2010. Also the
> shipped xml-apis.jar contains an ancient (2009) version of the APIs found in
> any modern JDK (JAXP).
> I have found no hint in the documentation that people ususally don't need
> Xerces for XML processing. Only hints how to drop all the Xerces jars into
> the endorsed folder, causing a massive downgrade of the XML infrastructure to
> stoneage in modern JDKs.
> I don't know if Xerces is actually something useful for a lot of people
> today. If it is, the website should clearly state those use cases. If it
> isn't then the website should have a big fat warning that this code is
> subject to bitrot and putting it into endorsed will negatively impact the
> functionality of their JDK.
> For many years Xerces was useful and necessary. But since the JDK started
> shipping all these things in a stable way, this is no longer the case. But
> the Internet is still full of references and false hints to Xerces. Please
> finally admit that this project is effectively dead, outdated and legacy.
> Keeping the website as is, leads people into a false corner and wastes
> uncountable hours of valuable developer time wordwide.
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