[YANGTOOLS-937] Require StAX2 for all XML operations

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:55:27 +0000

Recent flux with StAX implementation necessitating yangtools-2.1.8, it has become clear the JRE XML stack is less than perfect and we can easily be subjected to a different implementation. This not only enlarges our testing matrix, but we need to deal with, sometimes incompatible, implementation quirks.

Transition crititical components to use stax2-api, so that we can settle on woodstox as the reference implementation we package. This should provide additional benefits in terms of performance and capability.

OpenDaylight JIRA

[YANGTOOLS-937] Require StAX2 for all XML operations