Serious bug in XML parser still open after 4 years?

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/11/2012 15:06, Christian d'Heureuse wrote:
> In 2008, I have isolated and documented a serious bug in SAXParser. The
> bug can be easily reproduced on multiple platforms and leads to data
> corruption, e.g. when importing a database dump from an XML file.
>
> http://www.source-code.biz/snippets/java/saxParserError/
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6716312
>
> This bug seems to be fixed in newer Xerces versions, but JDK 7 still
> includes Xerces 2.7.1., which dates from 2005.
>
> I looked through the descriptions of the OpenJDK mailing lists at
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo, but could not find a
> mailing list for XML problems. What can be done to get this bug fixed?
>
> Christian
> www.source-code.biz
There isn't a mailing list for JAXP here so I suggest to bring your 
patch for discussion to core-libs-dev as that is where reviews for this 
code have been discussed recently.

-Alan