Xalan dependent on Xerces?

["G. Todd Miller - XML Tech Ctr - Development" <Gl...@Sun.COM>]

Quick question on xerces.jar and Xalan:

In xml-xalan/java/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref, there are several dependencies
on xerces, and therefore building xalan seems to require 'xerces.jar' to
be available to the build process. Is 'xerces.jar' required to build Xalan?
Grep for 'xerces' in that directory lists the following:
 
DTMManagerDefault.java:          && 
(reader.getClass().getName().equals("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser") );

IncrementalSAXSource_Filter.java:      new 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser();

IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces.java:import org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser;

IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces.java:                       Class 
xniConfigClass=me.forName("org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration")
;

IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces.java:                       Class 
xniStdConfigClass=me.forName("org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfigurat
ion");

IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces.java:                       Class 
fXniInputSourceClass=me.forName("org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource");

Thanks for any help,

Todd


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