> xml-apis.jar shipped with Xalan have org.w3c.dom.html.* apis. >Does Xalan have any real dependency on those apis ??
Basically, xml-apis is all of xml-commons. If the xml-commons activity was producing their own jarfile, we'd use that rather than generating our own. This does mean we include some interfaces which we aren't currently using, including the HTML DOM files. Our judgement was that this minor overhead was safer than trying to pick and choose, since the goal is that eventually all of Apache ought to be able to use a single off-the-shelf collection of XML APIs rather than having each project maintain their own.
