Dealing with “Xerces hell” in Java/Maven?

There are 2.11.0 JARs (and source JARs!) of Xerces in Maven Central since 20th February 2013! See Xerces in Maven Central. I wonder why they haven’t resolved https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1454… I’ve used: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>2.11.0</version> </dependency> and all dependencies have resolved fine – even proper xml-apis-1.4.01! And what’s most important (and what wasn’t obvious in the … Read more