Actually, according to the linked project page [1] only the "umbrella" XML project had been decomissioned; the only actual subpackages retired are axkit and xin

Actually, according to the linked project page [1] only the "umbrella" XML project had been decomissioned; the only actual subpackages retired are axkit and xindice (never really used or even heard of those). Xerces, which as Xerces/J is a major part of Java's XML stack, and all the other subprojects have just migrated into standalone projects, including even XMLBeans which was resurrected on request of Apache's POI project for reading/creating MS Office files. [1]: http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/ http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/