diff --git a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.classpath b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.classpath
index 14133132696..ea230fa6225 100644
--- a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.classpath
+++ b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.classpath
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="/org.eclipse.team.core"/>
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="/org.eclipse.pde.core"/>
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="/org.eclipse.pde.ui"/>
+    <classpathentry kind="src" path="/org.apache.xerces"/>
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="/org.eclipse.core.boot"/>
     <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
     <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
diff --git a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.project b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.project
index d8f81b89189..5faaf5ee411 100644
--- a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.project
+++ b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/.project
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 	<name>org.eclipse.cdt.releng</name>
 	<comment></comment>
 	<projects>
+		<project>org.apache.xerces</project>
 		<project>org.eclipse.core.boot</project>
 		<project>org.eclipse.core.resources</project>
 		<project>org.eclipse.core.runtime</project>
diff --git a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/plugin.xml b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/plugin.xml
index 7bd549b6753..bf65de94518 100644
--- a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/plugin.xml
+++ b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/plugin.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
       <import plugin="org.eclipse.team.core"/>
       <import plugin="org.eclipse.pde.core"/>
       <import plugin="org.eclipse.pde.ui"/>
+      <import plugin="org.apache.xerces"/>
    </requires>
 
 
diff --git a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/src/org/eclipse/cdt/releng/DoBuild.java b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/src/org/eclipse/cdt/releng/DoBuild.java
index fe7ba580e78..8c4318ee2b1 100644
--- a/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/src/org/eclipse/cdt/releng/DoBuild.java
+++ b/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.releng/src/org/eclipse/cdt/releng/DoBuild.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.eclipse.cdt.releng;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -9,11 +8,9 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
-import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
-import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
-import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
-import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 
+import org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat;
+import org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer;
 import org.eclipse.core.boot.IPlatformRunnable;
 import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile;
 import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFolder;
@@ -259,10 +256,10 @@ public class DoBuild implements IPlatformRunnable {
 		String buildNum = versionElem.getAttribute("build");
 		buildNum = String.valueOf(Integer.decode(buildNum).intValue() + 1);
 		versionElem.setAttribute("build", buildNum);
-		TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
-		Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
-		File versionResult = new File(versionFile.getRawLocation().toOSString());
-		transformer.transform(new DOMSource(versionDoc), new StreamResult(versionResult));
+		OutputFormat xmlOutputFormat = new OutputFormat("xml", "UTF-8", false);
+		FileOutputStream versionResult = new FileOutputStream(versionFile.getRawLocation().toOSString());
+		XMLSerializer ser = new XMLSerializer(versionResult, xmlOutputFormat);
+		ser.serialize(versionDoc);
 		versionFile.refreshLocal(IResource.DEPTH_ONE, monitor);
 		version = versionId + "." + buildNum;