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Creates XML parsers and transformers through org.apache.commons:commons-secure-xml (1.0.0-SNAPSHOT until its first release). The secure factories enable XML secure processing and install a non-removable entity-resolver floor: external DTD, entity, schema and XInclude lookups that a caller-set resolver does not resolve are resolved to empty content instead of being fetched, and internal entity expansion is bounded.

  • DOMParser goes through SecureDocumentBuilderFactory and XMLDocumentContainer through SecureTransformerFactory; the caller-configurable settings (validation, namespace awareness, entity expansion, whitespace, comments, coalescing) keep working.
  • JDOMParser builds its SAX reader through the secure factory as well, by overriding SAXBuilder.createParser(); documents with internal DTD subsets parse as before.
  • Parsers registered through DocumentContainer.registerXMLParser remain under the control of their authors.
  • CI and CodeQL run with -Puse-apache-snapshots so the SNAPSHOT dependency resolves.

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Create XML parsers and transformers through
org.apache.commons:commons-secure-xml. The secure factories enable
FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING and install a non-removable entity-resolver
floor on every parser they produce: external DTD, entity, schema and
XInclude lookups that a caller-set resolver does not resolve are
resolved to empty content instead of being fetched, and internal entity
expansion is bounded, regardless of the JAXP implementation on the
classpath.

Changes:
- Add the commons-secure-xml dependency (1.0.0-SNAPSHOT until its first
  release).
- Route factory creation through SecureDocumentBuilderFactory in
  DOMParser and SecureTransformerFactory in XMLDocumentContainer; the
  caller-configurable factory settings (validation, namespace awareness,
  entity expansion, whitespace, comments, coalescing) keep working.
- JDOMParser builds its SAX reader through the secure factory as well,
  by overriding SAXBuilder.createParser(); documents with internal DTD
  subsets parse as before.
- Parsers registered through DocumentContainer.registerXMLParser remain
  under the control of their authors.
- Run the CI and CodeQL builds with -Puse-apache-snapshots (inherited
  from the org.apache:apache parent POM) so the commons-secure-xml
  SNAPSHOT resolves; CodeQL's autobuild receives the profile through
  MAVEN_ARGS.

Assisted-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MHgnMnGWHQoH2zD2jFdoMT
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ppkarwasz force-pushed the feat/use-commons-xml branch from f9af9ef to 915bc09 Compare August 31, 2026 15:06
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