[DRILL-8262] Drop dependency on Xalan which is EOL

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.20.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.20.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: PJ Fanning
• Created: 19/Jul/22 19:37
• Updated: 28/Jul/22 11:35
• Resolved: 28/Jul/22 11:35

Description

Xalan is no longer supported.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/s8kjny5270ssfcp46v0fl39lk98987w7

It is better to use JAXP TransformerFactory than using xalan directly. If you add xalan dependency just to ensure that you have a JAXP compliant transformer on the classpath, this is unnecessary - the Java runtime has a built-in implementation.

Drill dependency:
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.drill.exec/drill-java-exec/1.20.0