Hello, This is a straight backport from 8, the changes are identical. Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015016 Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/017746.html Changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jaxp/rev/c2957e596bee Thanks, Joe