[XERCESJ-1689] Remove org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDOMImplementation from xercesImpl.jar

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.12.3
• Component/s: DOM (HTML)
• Assignee: Mukul Gandhi
• Reporter: Otmar Humbel
• Created: 08/Feb/18 22:34
• Updated: 01/Aug/24 11:55
• Resolved: 01/Feb/22 06:52

Description

The interface org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDOMImplementation is part of the JDK since Java 1.7.

Java 1.7 has been EOL 'ed since a long time.
Is there any reason to keep this interface in xercesImpl.jar? It produces a split package:

xerces-2_11_0: jdeps --jdk-internals -cp ./xercesImpl.jar
split package: org.w3c.dom.html [jrt:/jdk.xml.dom, ./xercesImpl.jar]

which prevents people from using modules in Java >= 9.