[m2] commons-digester pom & xml api

[jean-laurent <je...@gmail.com>]

In commons-digester 1.7 pom, there is a compile dependency on xml-apis.
    <dependency>
      <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
      <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.b2</version>
    </dependency>
http://ibiblio.org/maven2/commons-digester/commons-digester/1.7/commons-digester-1.7.pom

But commons-digester documentation state that it depends either on
xerces or JAXP 1.1.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/commons-digester-1.7/docs/apidocs/org/apache/commons/digester/package-summary.html#doc.Depend

So depending of your application you may need it or not.
I was about to file a JIRA, but I'm not sure anymore :
1 - Should this dependency on xml-apis be stated as <scope>provided</scope>  ?
or
2 - should we let it as <scope>compile</scope> and explicitly exclude
it when neccessary ?

thx
--
Jean-Laurent

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