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-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-EAPI=6
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
-
-DESCRIPTION="Yet another Java library for parsing and writing XML"
-HOMEPAGE="http://dev2dev.bea.com/xml/stax.html"
-SRC_URI="http://ftpna2.bea.com/pub/downloads/${PN}.jar"
-
-LICENSE="bea.ri.jsr173"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-
-CDEPEND="dev-java/jaxme:0"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	>=virtual/jre-1.6"
-
-DEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	>=virtual/jdk-1.6"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
-JAVA_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="jaxme"
-
-DOCS=( README.txt jsr173_1.0.pdf )
-
-src_unpack() {
-	cd "${S}" || die
-	jar xvf "${DISTDIR}/${A}" || die "failed to unpack"
-	jar xvf "${P//-/_}_src.jar" || die "failed to unpack"
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	java-pkg_clean
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	java-pkg-simple_src_compile
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	java-pkg-simple_src_install
-	use doc && einstalldocs
-}