They seem to be aware about it -- see this issue, for example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1689
Dawid On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:33 PM Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 14/11/2019 10:07, Dawid Weiss wrote: > > : > > Just FYI: the latest Apache Xerces release (that's June, 2018) still > > depends on this jar... > > > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xerces/xercesImpl/2.12.0/xercesImpl-2.12.0.pom > > > A release in 2018 suggests it may still be maintained. Do you, or > anyone else, have cycles to reach out to this project to help them? It's > not clear to me why they would want developers to downgrade the XML API > to where it was in Java SE 6. > > -Alan