diff --git a/pdf/plugin.jelly b/pdf/plugin.jelly
index c9ddfe58..4baf874c 100644
--- a/pdf/plugin.jelly
+++ b/pdf/plugin.jelly
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
                 <pathelement location="${plugin.getDependencyPath('logkit')}"/>
                 <pathelement location="${plugin.getDependencyPath('avalon-framework')}"/>
                 <pathelement location="${plugin.getDependencyPath('xerces')}"/>
+                <pathelement location="${plugin.getDependencyPath('xml-apis')}"/>
             </classpath>
             <arg value="-c"/>
             <arg value="${docsPdf}/userconfig.xml"/>
diff --git a/pdf/project.xml b/pdf/project.xml
index 84ce0f15..af7d506f 100644
--- a/pdf/project.xml
+++ b/pdf/project.xml
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@
       <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
       <version>2.4.1</version>
       <url>http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/</url>
+      <properties>
+        <classloader>root</classloader>
+      </properties>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <versions>
diff --git a/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml b/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
index 49f84942..39d4b0b2 100644
--- a/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/pdf/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
     <author email="dion@apache.org">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="2.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="brett" type="fix">
+        <p>Add xml-apis and xalan dependencies for JDK 1.3.</p>
+      </action>
+    </release>
+
     <release version="2.0" date="2004-03-10" description="Beta Release.">
       <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPPDF-6"  due-to="Arnaud Heritier">
         <ul>