diff --git a/release/project.xml b/release/project.xml
index a62f0487..4efd0f9c 100644
--- a/release/project.xml
+++ b/release/project.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@
       <version>1.4-dev-8</version>
       <url>http://www.dom4j.org/</url>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <id>xml-apis</id>
+      <version>1.0.b2</version>
+      <url>http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/</url>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
 </project>