Possible to use JDK xml utilities instead of simple-xml?

[jvanzyl]

I am using xar in a utilities where I'm making a shaded JAR, and the simple-xml framework is doubling the size. Not a huge concern but seems everything required to parse the simple ToC is in the JDK.

[rzimmer]

Thanks for your feedback and great to hear that you're using our project! You're right, the current dependency to simple-xml is a bit heavy. After we kicked out Guava (which was obviously even more a concern!), we'll definitely take replacing simple-xml with something lightweight in consideration. The JDK or a thin wrapper around it sounds good, we still need to look into Android compatibility, though. Give us some time, please 😄

[jvanzyl]

I have forked your repo and released to central so that I can release this:

https://github.com/takari/jdkget

Thanks for the XAR code, very helpful!

[rzimmer]

Great, thanks for releasing! I've just created #2 to track progress for when we have implemented the "official" deployment to central. Unfortunately, time is short these busy days...

[jvanzyl]

No problem. No rush on my side. I'm good for now.