Dear Michael, As the PMC Chair of Xerces, I believe you have insight into the environment in which your project can run the tests successfully without encountering exceptions.
Nowadays the latest sources of Xerces can be found on the GitHub branches There are three kinds of tests: 1. The former Xerces tests, run via build.bat test (likely after building with build.bat all), can be found here: a) https://github.com/apache/xerces-j/tree/main/tests or with a single bit of refactoring on the latest branch xml-schema-1.1-dev b) https://github.com/apache/xerces-j/tree/xml-schema-1.1-dev/tests With JDK 8 on W10 the fail with: * Provider org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator could not be instantiated: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.apache.xerces.dom.ObjectFactory can not access a member of class org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator with modifiers "protected"* 2. The new Xerces Tests from Mukul within https://github.com/apache/xerces-j/tree/xml-schema-1.1-tests/src/org/apache/xerces/tests 3. The W3C XSD conformance tests https://github.com/apache/xerces-j/tree/xml-schema-1.1-tests/w3c_xmlschema11-testsuite There is no runner for the tests, nor a description of where to get them and execute the tests, but there have been tests results: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apache-xercesj-w3c-xml-schema-test-suite-reports-mukul-gandhi/ (even if I check out the Xerces-J being used: svn checkout -r 1920842 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/java/trunk/ I got with JDK8 .\build.bat test [java] Tests run: 72, Failures: 7, Errors: 0 It would be particularly helpful if you could provide guidance on running the W3C test suite, especially with respect to the test runner for loading and saving the suite. I am unsure if there is a misconfiguration on my part—whether it be related to the JDK, platform, or other settings—or if Xerces-J has been encountering test failures for some time. Additionally, considering that the W3C XSD 1.1 spec mentions compatibility with XSD 1.0, would it not be beneficial to merge everything into a single branch to avoid data duplication? I trust that, as the PMC Chair, you can provide answers to these questions. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Best regards, Svante
