No more units xercesxmldom in Delphi XE?

Question

I am wondering what happened to the xercesxmldom module as one of the XML DOM implementations .
It seems to have disappeared into Delphi XE .
Why?

(I searched for documents, could not find any information about the disappearance of xercesxmldom).

Edit : these are the sources I archived:

 R:\>dir /s /b xercesxmldom.pas R:\D2006-Enterprise-D10-BDS-4.0\source\Win32\xml\xercesxmldom.pas R:\D2007-Enterprise-D11-RadStudio-5.0\source\Win32\xml\xercesxmldom.pas R:\D2009-Enterprise-D12-RadStudio-6.0\source\Win32\xml\xercesxmldom.pas R:\D2010-Enterprise-D14-RadStudio-7.0\source\Win32\xml\xercesxmldom.pas R:\D7.01.Architect\Source\Xml\xercesxmldom.pas 

Nothing in the source tree R:\DXE-Enterprise-D15-RadStudio-8.0 ...

- Jeroen

Answer 1

Here is a quote from the answer that Bruno (Jean-Marie) Babet posted to my question on the Embarcadero forums:

I asked: the removal was intentional and due to the fact that we have little evidence that xerces DOM was used, the cost of the effort to port it to the Mac, and the maturity of ADOM. I was told that we would be open to release our wrappers for Xeroxes (say, at SourceForge), if there is interest.

So, if you use xerces in Delphi, you either expect shells to appear in sourceforge, or switch to OpenXML ADOM , which is compatible with Delphi XE.

Answer 2

This is in my installation of RAD Studio XE 2010. The source file is located in:

 C:\Program Files\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\7.0\source\Win32\xml\ 

I do not see it in the XE source path anywhere, so it seems like it deleted it for some reason.

However, a quick scan of the source code in version 2010 shows nothing that would prevent it from being used in XE. However, I have not tested this.