Issue1292

We have this large dependency on the latest xerces for pyexpat/elementtree  
support. Ideally we could get OpenJDK to upgrade its xerces, for the 
features we need, then we can rely on it instead of packing our own 
version of the rather large xerces jar

This might be a good Project Coin suggestion, but the deadline is 
tomorrow!

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

Project Coin is language changes, so this isn't applicable there

JDK 7 promises to "update the XML stack", including JAXP, JAXB:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#f568

Hopefully this includes what we want, but we should keep an eye on this

I'm about 99% sure that Java 7 includes a new enough xerces, but I somewhat recall noticing that Java 6 already did. So we need to check the version included in Java 6.

Last time I did this I had to track down the xerces source inside of the JDK stdlib to really figure out what the version was (you can probably grep for "VERSION" in its package directory)

Seems that we need at least v2.9.1

http://code.google.com/p/jython-elementtree/source/detail?r=65

er, that issue does have a test, so we could just try nuking our xerces jar and see if it passes. might want to double check it on Java 5 to make sure it's failing there

Eh - the version of xerces in my local JDK is less than the one we already bundled. I updated ours for now and will re-evaluate in Jython 3.x.

Should revisit

I just revisited this, and JDK 7 does not have sufficient support for our needs, at least not at build 21.

Let's close this out for now. We routinely revisit our extlibs dependencies on every release, so I'm sure we don't need to track this specific one in the bug tracker.