[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8035467: Xerces Update: Move to Xalan based DOM L3 serializer. Deprecate Xerces' native serializer.

[Elliott Baron]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:13:07 GMT, Elliott Baron <ebaron at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This backport is part of the effort to update Xerces in 8u to 2.12 ([JDK-8238164](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8238164).
> 
> The JDK 9 commit does not apply cleanly, but only required cosmetic changes. These are due to differences in some copyright headers, and not having a `@version` Javadoc tag in the 8u version of these files.
> 
> I am concerned over deprecating the Xerces serializer. As noted in [JDK-8219692](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8219692), there are behavioural changes caused by this new serializer.

(Ping to keep PR open)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/89