If this is a [metoo] thread - including xalan ( or an xslt impl) if you include jaxp.jar is not only nice, but it may be required by the JAXP licence.
There seem to be three issues in play here 1. Are we *required* to bundle Xalan?
Currently we do not include a full jaxp.jar but that strange cutdown Xerces one. Costin, can you give more concrete information on what the JAXP licence requires?
2. Should we bundle Xalan because some people find it useful?
I'm -0 on that question. In general I don't think we should bundle everything into an Ant distribution. There are lots of other things we could bundle too. Perhaps we could have the Ant mega special - not only does it include optional.jar but a selection of other useful Apache jars.
3. Should Xalan be required for bootstrap?
No. IMHO, we should keep the bootstrap requirements to an absolute minimum. This needs to be fixed.
Conor
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