On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:16:19 -0400 Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> That may be what the Oracle JDK is doing, but it isn't mentioned > anywhere in the JAXP specification and sounds like a backward > incompatible change that they've introduced to their implementation. > I doubt Apache Xalan would have adopted that behaviour. You are right. I was assuming that Apache and Oracle implementations would have the same behaviour (shame on me I didn't run the test). According to the source code and to my tests, only the Oracle implementation is affected by this issue. Indeed it is a backward incompatible change... Regards.