Hi Max, You should use the Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism [1] (either the default endorsed directory or -Djava.endorsed.dirs). Depending on the versions of xml-apis.jar and the JDK, if you merely place the jar on the classpath it will either be ineffective or in the worst case you'll end up with a hybrid of two JAXP versions where some of the API is loaded from xml-apis.jar and the rest is loaded from the JDK.
Thanks. [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/standards/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/10/2007 03:21:31 AM: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand the proper usage of xml-apis or xmlParserAPIs > jars. Is it true that, if using JDK 1.4 or later, they are useless when > placed on the normal classpath, and must be placed in an endorsed > directory to have any effect? > > Thanks, > Max.
