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The web.core module is about the only real user for org.netbeans.lib.xerces in the standard IDE distribution. The only used methods are character-classification utilities - these could be implemented for example in openide XMLUtils (they are generic enough) or directly copied to web.core. We can then remove xerces from the distribution - unmaintained / obsolete contrib modules will bring it during autoupdate.