Hi Bradley, xml-apis.jar contains bug fixes (and even performance improvements) [1] which may not be in Java 5 so you may be trading these off by not carrying the jar with your application.
Thanks. [1] http://xml.apache.org/commons/changes.html#version_xml-commons-external-1.3.04 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bradley Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/16/2008 09:26:48 AM: > Hi, > > Let me preface this by saying that I'm sure this has been answered > somewhere, but I searched the list archives and read what the Xalan J > documentation. > > Is the xml-apis.jar still a dependency when running in Java 1.5? Seems > like the JAXP classes that are needed come with the JVM now. Are there > other things outside the JAXP 1.3 spec that are provided in this xml- > apis.jar that I need? > > I have an application with Xalan running it already and I know that it > does not have any problem, compiling or deploying so far without xml- > apis.jar in there. I've also tried some basic transformations. > > Thanks, > Bradley
