JDK9 project: XML/JAXP Approachability / Ease of Use

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/06/2014 12:02, Michael Kay wrote:
> Here are some quick thoughts about the state of XML support in the JDK:
>
> 1. XML Parser. The version of Xerces in the JDK has long been buggy, and no-one has been fixing the bugs. It needs to be replaced with a more recent version of Apache Xerces if that hasn't already been done.
The discussion on updating Xerces is here:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-February/024805.html

-Alan.