Thanks for the reply. For the record I confirmed this error happens on
xercesImpl-2.12.2.jar.
While I too am somewhat amazed this cast ever worked, it did actually work
for 10 years starting on this Rampart commit below.
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commit b73690eefaad9027bb9633a20e29a218a1021cc9 (HEAD -> master)
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Ill throe this in, but i might be out in left field (or iut in da weeds)But
this is a difference between axiom and DOMWhen working with JAXB and axis2 we
had to be very specific as to which "space" we were inAxiom or DOM
you cant just cast between them
Rick Brown
On Wednesday, September 27,
I'm the VP of the Apache Axis project and on the PMC of the Apache Axiom
project, and I am trying to upgrade the Axis sub project Apache Rampart
project - last released in 2017 - to modern dependencies.
My environment is JDK 17 on Linux with a compiler target of JDK 11.
I mention all this because