RE: Xerces, Xalan, and 1.4.x JDK's

[Joseph Kesselman]

> Although including the class would have resulted in no run-time
> dependencies, there would still have been a compile-time dependency
> which Costin did not want, as I recall.

Please recheck that assertion. IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces is heavily laden with reflection code to avoid having a dependency upon any particular verion of Xerces.. and I _think_ that's so thoroughly encapsulated that there are no compile-time dependencies remaining.

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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research