JAXP problem

["Reynolds, Ron" <Ro...@morganstanley.com>]

i've run into an annoying problem trying to use JAXP and Xerces (1.4.1) if
Crimson is in the classpath.  the problem is that Crimson has the
META-INF/services entry which registers it's impls as the JAXP service
provider and this means that DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance() will never
return a Xerces DocBuilderFactoryImpl, but a Crimson DocBuilderFactoryImpl
instead (which has other problems which is how i noticed this was happening
in the first place).  is there any reason Xerces doesn't contain the
META-INF/services entry in its JAR file?  if not could someone please add
them to the distribution jar?
thanx for your time.
...........................ron.