On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > Michael Ludwig <mil...@gmx.de> wrote on 03/18/2010 04:48:11 PM: > > > > What version of "org.apache.xalan.*" is "com.sun.org.apache.xalan.*" > > > based off of in this JRE? > > > > As far as I know, not even off of some stable release. If you want to > > know, ask Sun. > > I have good reason to believe that it wasn't forked off stable releases for > Java 5. I recall someone who was using the com.sun.org.apache.xerces.* > version reporting a bug on the Xerces user list that must have been in > unreleased code (something to do with the infrastructure I'd put down to > support EntityResolver2 [1] if I recall correctly; at the time the code was > unreachable through SAX) that I had written in between Xerces 2.6.2 and > 2.7.0. That bug has never existed in any released version of Xerces so expect > the snapshot was taken on some arbitrary day between the two releases. > Perhaps the same thing happened with Java 6 and wouldn't be surprised if it > has diverged significantly since then to support APIs like StAX which we > haven't finished implementing here yet. >
There's more info about the different versions here [1]. I'm not sure about the EntityResolver2 issue; a lot of bug fixes have been applied since the original fork and it's possible that someone re-introduced some pre-2.7.0 code. As you said, there have been a number of changes around StAX and also the Validation API in 1.4. -- Santiago [1] https://jaxp.dev.java.net/1.4/JAXP-FAQ.html
