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HTML DOM should be marked deprecated or removed from xercesImpl.jar

           Summary: HTML DOM should be marked deprecated or removed from
                    xercesImpl.jar
           Product: Xerces2-J
           Version: 2.6.1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: DOM
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


The HTML DOM implementation can not not read XHTML (which uses lower-case tag 
names, HTML DOM requires uppercase), and can not be easily modernized without 
breaking any existing apps that depend on its current behavior.  However, the 
behavior is so broken that there may not be any apps that actually use it in 
its current state.

The HTML DOM adds a substantial amount of bulk to xercesImpl.jar.  Deprecating 
org.apache.xerces.html.dom.HTMLBuilder or removing the HTML DOM from 
xercesImpl.jar's build would clearly signal the breakage of any hypothetical 
existing apps which would allow the code to be modified to accept XHTML and to 
potentially be loaded on demand from an separate jar file.

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