[XERCESJ-1654] Add support for properties set by JAXP in the JDK (secure-processing, accessExternalDTD and entityExpansionLimit)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.11.0
• Environment: Problem noticed with:; * jdk1.7.0_71.jdk; * jdk1.8.0_25.jdk
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vincent Massol
• Created: 05/Feb/15 17:49
• Updated: 18/Aug/17 13:25

Description

I have tons of the following warnings in my console when doing an XSLT transformation:

Warning:  org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Feature 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing' is not recognized.
Warning:  org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD' is not recognized.
Warning:  org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit' is not recognized.

Code:

    /**
     * Parse and pretty pint a XML content.
     *
     * @param content the XML content to format
     * @return the formated version of the passed XML content
     * @throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError when failing to create a
     *             {@link TransformerFactoryConfigurationError}
     * @throws TransformerException when failing to transform the content
     * @since 5.2M1
     */
    public static String formatXMLContent(String content) throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError,
        TransformerException
    {
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");

        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
        StreamSource source = new StreamSource(new StringReader(content));
        transformer.transform(source, result);

        return result.getWriter().toString();
    }

According to what I read at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-158 and at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jaxp/limits/limits.html this seems to have been caused by some changes introduced in the JDK and that XercesJ doesn't support yet.

Thus this issue is about adding support for them.

Thanks!