Migrating xml tools to standard API

8 files changed, 327 insertions, 300 deletions

diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
index 8dc755071..6423d268e 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
@@ -42,22 +42,11 @@
        <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>jaxen</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
-      <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
       <artifactId>archiva-test-utils</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/ElementTextListClosure.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/ElementTextListClosure.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 10adbd85c..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/ElementTextListClosure.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.archiva.xml;
-
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import org.apache.commons.collections4.Closure;
-import org.dom4j.Element;
-
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
-
-/**
- * Gather the text from a collection of {@link Element}'s into a {@link List}
- *
- *
- */
-public class ElementTextListClosure
-    implements Closure
-{
-    private List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
-
-    @Override
-    public void execute( Object input )
-    {
-        if ( input instanceof Element )
-        {
-            Element elem = (Element) input;
-            list.add( elem.getTextTrim() );
-        }
-    }
-
-    public List<String> getList()
-    {
-        return list;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReader.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReader.java
index ef7b9b2a5..49073d930 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReader.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReader.java
@@ -20,29 +20,28 @@ package org.apache.archiva.xml;
  */
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
-import org.dom4j.Attribute;
-import org.dom4j.Document;
-import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
-import org.dom4j.Element;
-import org.dom4j.Namespace;
-import org.dom4j.Node;
-import org.dom4j.QName;
-import org.dom4j.XPath;
-import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
+
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
+import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.xpath.*;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 /**
  * XMLReader - a set of common xml utility methods for reading content out of an xml file.
@@ -56,6 +55,25 @@ public class XMLReader
     private Document document;
 
     private Map<String, String> namespaceMap = new HashMap<>();
+    private Map<String, String> reverseNamespaceMap = new HashMap<>();
+
+    private class NamespaceCtx implements NamespaceContext {
+
+        @Override
+        public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix) {
+            return namespaceMap.get(prefix);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String getPrefix(String namespaceURI) {
+            return reverseNamespaceMap.get(namespaceURI);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Iterator getPrefixes(String namespaceURI) {
+            return namespaceMap.keySet().iterator();
+        }
+    }
 
     public XMLReader( String type, Path file )
         throws XMLException
@@ -97,41 +115,69 @@ public class XMLReader
         this.documentType = type;
         this.xmlUrl = url;
 
-        SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
+        // SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
 
-        try (InputStream in = url.openStream())
-        {
-            InputStreamReader inReader = new InputStreamReader( in, Charset.forName( "UTF-8" ) );
-            LatinEntityResolutionReader latinReader = new LatinEntityResolutionReader( inReader );
-            this.document = reader.read( latinReader );
-        }
-        catch ( DocumentException e )
+
+
+        try (InputStream in = url.openStream(); Reader reader = new LatinEntityResolutionReader(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8"))))
         {
-            throw new XMLException( "Unable to parse " + documentType + " xml " + xmlUrl + ": " + e.getMessage(), e );
+
+            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+            dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
+            dbf.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+            dbf.setValidating(false);
+            // dbf.setAttribute(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD,"false");
+            dbf.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING,true);
+            // dbf.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
+
+            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
+            // To suppress error output at System.err
+            db.setErrorHandler(new ErrorHandler() {
+                @Override
+                public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
+
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
+                    throw exception;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
+                    throw exception;
+                }
+            });
+            this.document = db.parse(new InputSource(reader));
+
         }
         catch ( IOException e )
         {
             throw new XMLException( "Unable to open stream to " + url + ": " + e.getMessage(), e );
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Unable to start parser "+e.getMessage());
+        } catch (SAXException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Unable to parse file "+e.getMessage());
         }
 
-        Element root = this.document.getRootElement();
+        Element root = this.document.getDocumentElement();
         if ( root == null )
         {
             throw new XMLException( "Invalid " + documentType + " xml: root element is null." );
         }
 
-        if ( !StringUtils.equals( root.getName(), documentType ) )
+        if ( !StringUtils.equals( root.getLocalName(), documentType ) )
         {
             throw new XMLException(
-                "Invalid " + documentType + " xml: Unexpected root element <" + root.getName() + ">, expected <"
-                    + documentType + ">" );
+                "Invalid " + documentType + " xml: Unexpected root element <" + root.getLocalName() + ">, expected <"
+                    + documentType + ">" + root.getNodeName() );
         }
     }
 
     public String getDefaultNamespaceURI()
     {
-        Namespace namespace = this.document.getRootElement().getNamespace();
-        return namespace.getURI();
+        String namespace = this.document.getNamespaceURI();
+        return namespace;
     }
 
     public void addNamespaceMapping( String elementName, String uri )
@@ -142,48 +188,55 @@ public class XMLReader
     public Element getElement( String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        XPath xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
-        Object evaluated = xpath.selectSingleNode( document );
+        XPathExpression xpath = null;
+        try {
+            xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
+            Object evaluated = xpath.evaluate( document, XPathConstants.NODE);
 
-        if ( evaluated == null )
-        {
-            return null;
-        }
+            if ( evaluated == null )
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
 
-        if ( evaluated instanceof Element )
-        {
-            return (Element) evaluated;
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            // Unknown evaluated type.
-            throw new XMLException( ".getElement( Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-Element type -> ("
-                                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
+            if ( evaluated instanceof Element )
+            {
+                return (Element) evaluated;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                // Unknown evaluated type.
+                throw new XMLException( ".getElement( Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-Element type -> ("
+                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
+            }
+        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not parse xpath expression");
         }
     }
 
-    private XPath createXPath( String xpathExpr )
-    {
-        XPath xpath = document.createXPath( xpathExpr );
+    private XPathExpression createXPath(String xpathExpr ) throws XPathExpressionException {
+        XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
         if ( !this.namespaceMap.isEmpty() )
         {
-            xpath.setNamespaceURIs( this.namespaceMap );
+            xpath.setNamespaceContext(new NamespaceCtx());
         }
-        return xpath;
+        return xpath.compile(xpathExpr);
     }
 
     public boolean hasElement( String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        XPath xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
-        Object evaluated = xpath.selectSingleNode( document );
-
-        if ( evaluated == null )
-        {
-            return false;
+        XPathExpression xpath = null;
+        try {
+            xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
+            Object evaluated = xpath.evaluate( document, XPathConstants.NODE );
+            if ( evaluated == null )
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return true;
+        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not create xpath expression");
         }
-
-        return true;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -191,32 +244,26 @@ public class XMLReader
      */
     public void removeNamespaces()
     {
-        removeNamespaces( this.document.getRootElement() );
+        removeNamespaces( this.document.getDocumentElement() );
     }
 
     /**
      * Remove namespaces from element recursively.
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-    public void removeNamespaces( Element elem )
+    public void removeNamespaces( Node elem )
     {
-        elem.setQName( QName.get( elem.getName(), Namespace.NO_NAMESPACE, elem.getQualifiedName() ) );
+        if (elem.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE || elem.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) {
+            document.renameNode(elem, null, elem.getLocalName());
 
-        Node n;
+            Node n;
 
-        Iterator<Node> it = elem.elementIterator();
-        while ( it.hasNext() )
-        {
-            n = it.next();
+            NodeList nodeList = elem.getChildNodes();
 
-            switch ( n.getNodeType() )
-            {
-                case Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-                    ( (Attribute) n ).setNamespace( Namespace.NO_NAMESPACE );
-                    break;
-                case Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
-                    removeNamespaces( (Element) n );
-                    break;
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
+                n = nodeList.item(i);
+                removeNamespaces(n);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -224,102 +271,74 @@ public class XMLReader
     public String getElementText( Node context, String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        XPath xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
-        Object evaluated = xpath.selectSingleNode( context );
+        XPathExpression xpath = null;
+        try {
+            xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
+            Object evaluated = xpath.evaluate( context, XPathConstants.NODE );
 
-        if ( evaluated == null )
-        {
-            return null;
-        }
+            if ( evaluated == null )
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
 
-        if ( evaluated instanceof Element )
-        {
-            Element evalElem = (Element) evaluated;
-            return evalElem.getTextTrim();
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            // Unknown evaluated type.
-            throw new XMLException( ".getElementText( Node, Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-Element type -> ("
-                                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
+            if ( evaluated instanceof Element )
+            {
+                Element evalElem = (Element) evaluated;
+                return XmlUtil.getText(evalElem);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                // Unknown evaluated type.
+                throw new XMLException( ".getElementText( Node, Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-Element type -> ("
+                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
+            }
+        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not parse xpath expression");
         }
     }
 
     public String getElementText( String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        XPath xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
-        Object evaluated = xpath.selectSingleNode( document );
-
-        if ( evaluated == null )
-        {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        if ( evaluated instanceof Element )
-        {
-            Element evalElem = (Element) evaluated;
-            return evalElem.getTextTrim();
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            // Unknown evaluated type.
-            throw new XMLException( ".getElementText( Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-Element type -> ("
-                                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
-        }
+        return getElementText(document, xpathExpr);
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-    public List<Element> getElementList( String xpathExpr )
+    public List<Node> getElementList( String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        XPath xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
-        Object evaluated = xpath.evaluate( document );
+        XPathExpression xpath = null;
+        try {
+            xpath = createXPath( xpathExpr );
+            Object evaluated = xpath.evaluate( document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
 
-        if ( evaluated == null )
-        {
-            return null;
-        }
+            if ( evaluated == null )
+            {
+                return Collections.emptyList();
+            }
 
-        /* The xpath.evaluate(Context) method can return:
-         *   1) A Collection or List of dom4j Nodes. 
-         *   2) A single dom4j Node.
-         */
+            NodeList nl = (NodeList) evaluated;
+            List<Node> nodeList = new ArrayList<>();
+            for (int i = 0 ; i<nl.getLength(); i++) {
+                nodeList.add(nl.item(i));
+            }
+            return nodeList;
 
-        if ( evaluated instanceof List )
-        {
-            return (List<Element>) evaluated;
-        }
-        else if ( evaluated instanceof Node )
-        {
-            List<Element> ret = new ArrayList<>();
-            ret.add( (Element) evaluated );
-            return ret;
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            // Unknown evaluated type.
-            throw new XMLException( ".getElementList( Expr: " + xpathExpr + " ) resulted in non-List type -> ("
-                                        + evaluated.getClass().getName() + ") " + evaluated );
+        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not parse xpath expression");
         }
     }
 
     public List<String> getElementListText( String xpathExpr )
         throws XMLException
     {
-        List<Element> elemList = getElementList( xpathExpr );
+        List<Node> elemList = getElementList( xpathExpr );
         if ( elemList == null )
         {
             return null;
         }
 
-        List<String> ret = new ArrayList<>();
-        for ( Iterator<Element> iter = elemList.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); )
-        {
-            Element listelem = iter.next();
-            ret.add( listelem.getTextTrim() );
-        }
-        return ret;
+        return elemList.stream().filter(n -> n instanceof Element).map(n -> XmlUtil.getText(n)).collect(Collectors.toList());
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriter.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriter.java
index 0f02ee44a..93c8ce84c 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriter.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriter.java
@@ -19,67 +19,78 @@ package org.apache.archiva.xml;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.dom4j.Document;
-import org.dom4j.io.OutputFormat;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 
+import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
+import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 
 /**
- * XMLWriter - Making writing XML files easier. 
- *
- *
+ * XMLWriter - Making writing XML files easier.
  */
-public class XMLWriter
-{
+public class XMLWriter {
     /**
      * Write the Document to the provided Writer, leaving the Writer open.
-     * 
-     * @param doc the document to write.
+     *
+     * @param doc    the document to write.
      * @param writer the writer to write to.
      * @throws XMLException if there was a problem writing the xml to the writer.
      */
-    public static void write( Document doc, Writer writer )
-        throws XMLException
-    {
-        write( doc, writer, false );
+    public static void write(Document doc, Writer writer)
+            throws XMLException {
+        write(doc, writer, false);
     }
 
     /**
      * Write the Document to the provided Writer, with an option to close the writer upon completion.
-     * 
-     * @param doc the document to write.
+     *
+     * @param doc    the document to write.
      * @param writer the writer to write to.
-     * @param close true to close the writer on completion.
+     * @param close  true to close the writer on completion.
      * @throws XMLException if there was a problem writing the xml to the writer.
      */
-    public static void write( Document doc, Writer writer, boolean close )
-        throws XMLException
-    {
-        org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter xmlwriter = null;
+    public static void write(Document doc, Writer writer, boolean close)
+            throws XMLException {
 
-        try
-        {
-            OutputFormat outputFormat = OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint();
-            xmlwriter = new org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter( writer, outputFormat );
-            xmlwriter.write( doc );
-            xmlwriter.flush();
-        }
-        catch ( IOException e )
-        {
-            throw new XMLException( "Unable to write xml contents to writer: " + e.getMessage(), e );
-        }
-        finally
-        {
-            if ( close && ( xmlwriter != null ) )
-            {
-                try
-                {
-                    xmlwriter.close();
-                }
-                catch ( IOException e )
-                {
-                    /* quietly ignore */
+        try {
+            TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+            Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
+            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
+            try {
+                transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
+            } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+                // Indent not supported
+            }
+            // Writing the XML declaration, because the JDK implementation does not create a newline
+            writer.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n");
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
+            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
+            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+
+
+        } catch (TransformerException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not create the xml transformer: " + e.getMessage(), e);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new XMLException("Could not write to xml output: " + e.getMessage(), e);
+        } finally {
+            if (writer!=null) {
+                if (close) {
+                    try {
+                        writer.flush();
+                    } catch (IOException e) {
+                        /* quietly ignore */
+                    }
+                    try {
+                        writer.close();
+                    } catch (IOException e) {
+                        /* quietly ignore */
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XmlUtil.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XmlUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..86024fb49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XmlUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package org.apache.archiva.xml;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.w3c.dom.*;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+public class XmlUtil {
+
+
+    public static Document createDocument() throws ParserConfigurationException {
+        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
+        return builder.newDocument();
+    }
+
+    public static Element addChild(Document doc, Element parent, String name) {
+        Element el = doc.createElement(name);
+        parent.appendChild(el);
+        return el;
+    }
+
+    public static Element addChild(Element parent, String name) {
+        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
+        Element el = doc.createElement(name);
+        parent.appendChild(el);
+        return el;
+    }
+
+    public static String getText(Node element) {
+        if (element!=null) {
+            element.normalize();
+            try {
+                String txt = element.getTextContent();
+                if (txt!=null) {
+                    return txt.trim();
+                }
+            } catch (DOMException e) {
+                return "";
+            }
+        }
+        return "";
+    }
+
+    public static Node getChild(Element parent, String name) {
+        NodeList elList = parent.getElementsByTagName(name);
+        if (elList.getLength()>0) {
+            return elList.item(0);
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static String getChildText(Element parent, String name) {
+        return getText(getChild(parent, name));
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/LatinEntityResolutionReaderTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/LatinEntityResolutionReaderTest.java
index c3c7dd0de..8b99066b1 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/LatinEntityResolutionReaderTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/LatinEntityResolutionReaderTest.java
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ package org.apache.archiva.xml;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
-import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -204,30 +202,6 @@ public class LatinEntityResolutionReaderTest
         assertProperRead( expected, "no-prolog-with-entities.xml", 409600 );
     }
 
-    @Test
-    public void testReaderLeftOver()
-        throws IOException
-    {
-        Path inputFile = getExampleXml( "maven-metadata-leftover.xml" );
-        //Bits from RepositoryMetadataReader.read
-        InputStream in = null;
-        SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
-        URL url = inputFile.toUri().toURL();
-        in = url.openStream();
-        InputStreamReader inReader = new InputStreamReader( in, Charset.forName( "UTF-8" ) );
-        LatinEntityResolutionReader latinReader = new LatinEntityResolutionReader( inReader );
-        try
-        {
-            reader.read( latinReader );
-        }
-        catch ( DocumentException e )
-        {
-            Assert.fail( "Should not have failed here." + e );
-            IOException ioe = new IOException();
-            ioe.initCause( e );
-            throw ioe;
-        }
-    }
 
     @Test
     public void testNoLatinEntitiesHugeLine()
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReaderTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReaderTest.java
index 3dc13825d..610ffcbb1 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReaderTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLReaderTest.java
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ package org.apache.archiva.xml;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.dom4j.Element;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -34,14 +35,14 @@ import java.util.List;
 public class XMLReaderTest
     extends AbstractArchivaXmlTestCase
 {
-    private void assertElementTexts( List<Element> elementList, String[] expectedTexts )
+    private void assertElementTexts( List<Node> elementList, String[] expectedTexts )
     {
         assertEquals( "Element List Size", expectedTexts.length, elementList.size() );
 
         List<String> texts = new ArrayList<>();
-        for ( Element element : elementList )
+        for ( Node element : elementList )
         {
-            texts.add( element.getTextTrim() );
+            texts.add( element.getTextContent().trim());
         }
 
         for ( int i = 0; i < expectedTexts.length; i++ )
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ public class XMLReaderTest
         Path xmlFile = getExampleXml( "no-prolog-basic.xml" );
         XMLReader reader = new XMLReader( "basic", xmlFile );
 
-        List<Element> fruits = reader.getElementList( "//basic/fruits/fruit" );
+        List<Node> fruits = reader.getElementList( "//basic/fruits/fruit" );
         assertElementTexts( fruits, new String[] { "apple", "cherry", "pear", "peach" } );
     }
 
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ public class XMLReaderTest
         Path xmlFile = getExampleXml( "no-prolog-with-entities.xml" );
         XMLReader reader = new XMLReader( "basic", xmlFile );
 
-        List<Element> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
+        List<Node> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
         assertElementTexts( names, new String[] { TRYGVIS, INFINITE_ARCHIVA } );
     }
 
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public class XMLReaderTest
         Path xmlFile = getExampleXml( "no-prolog-with-utf8.xml" );
         XMLReader reader = new XMLReader( "basic", xmlFile );
 
-        List<Element> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
+        List<Node> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
         assertElementTexts( names, new String[] { TRYGVIS, INFINITE_ARCHIVA } );
     }
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ public class XMLReaderTest
         Path xmlFile = getExampleXml( "prolog-with-utf8.xml" );
         XMLReader reader = new XMLReader( "basic", xmlFile );
 
-        List<Element> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
+        List<Node> names = reader.getElementList( "//basic/names/name" );
         assertElementTexts( names, new String[] { TRYGVIS, INFINITE_ARCHIVA } );
     }
     
@@ -104,9 +105,9 @@ public class XMLReaderTest
         XMLReader reader = new XMLReader( "metadata", xmlFile );
         reader.removeNamespaces();
         
-        Element groupId = reader.getElement( "//metadata/groupId" );        
+        Element groupId = (Element) reader.getElement( "//metadata/groupId" );
         assertNotNull( groupId );
-        assertEquals( "org.codehaus.mojo", groupId.getTextTrim() );   
+        assertEquals( "org.codehaus.mojo", groupId.getTextContent().trim() );
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriterTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriterTest.java
index 9ff014b6f..9ab1a4cf6 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriterTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/xml/XMLWriterTest.java
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ package org.apache.archiva.xml;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.dom4j.Document;
-import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper;
-import org.dom4j.Element;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 
 /**
@@ -41,7 +42,6 @@ public class XMLWriterTest
         StringBuilder expected = new StringBuilder();
 
         expected.append( "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" );
-        expected.append( "\n" );
         expected.append( "<basic>\n" );
         expected.append( "  <names>\n" );
         expected.append( "    <name>" ).append( TRYGVIS ).append( "</name>\n" );
@@ -49,12 +49,19 @@ public class XMLWriterTest
         expected.append( "  </names>\n" );
         expected.append( "</basic>\n" );
 
-        Element basic = DocumentHelper.createElement( "basic" );
-        Document doc = DocumentHelper.createDocument( basic );
+        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
+        Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
+        Element basic = doc.createElement("basic");
+        doc.appendChild(basic);
+        Element names = doc.createElement( "names" );
+        basic.appendChild(names);
+        Element name = doc.createElement("name");
+        name.setTextContent(TRYGVIS);
+        names.appendChild(name);
+        name = doc.createElement("name");
+        name.setTextContent(INFINITE_ARCHIVA);
 
-        Element names = basic.addElement( "names" );
-        names.addElement( "name" ).setText( TRYGVIS );
-        names.addElement( "name" ).setText( INFINITE_ARCHIVA );
+        names.appendChild(name);
 
         StringWriter actual = new StringWriter();
         XMLWriter.write( doc, actual );