OpenSAML user discussion

I pulled down the latest openSAML code from the SubVersion repos.  I am 
trying to get a successful build in maven so that I can start walking through 
the code and understand how it all works.  I can clean and compile just fine 
with command line maven, but when it comes to the "tests" the majority of 
them fail. 

Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 3, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.27 sec <<< 
FAILURE! 
testObjectProviderConfiguration(org.opensaml.xml.ConfigurationTest)  Time 
elapsed: 0.04 sec  <<< ERROR! 
org.opensaml.xml.ConfigurationException: Configuration file does not validate 
against schema 
        at 
org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.validateConfiguration(XMLConfigurator.java:357)
 
        at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.load(XMLConfigurator.java:145) 
        at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.load(XMLConfigurator.java:125) 
        at 
org.opensaml.xml.ConfigurationTest.testObjectProviderConfiguration(ConfigurationTest.java:84)
 
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 
'test:SimpleElement' as a QName: the prefix 'test' is not declared. 
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.Util.toSAXParseException(Util.java:109)
 
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ErrorHandlerAdaptor.error(ErrorHandlerAdaptor.java:104)
 
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:382)
 
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
 
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:429)
 
        at com. 

Now, from what I read on the site these errors are related to Xalan and 
Xerces missing from the endorsed directories.  I am building under WinXP and 
have added these files under my JDK 1.5 endorsed directory just to be safe.  
I also tried to update the POM file to include them during testing, but no 
luck there either.  I would have expected that the POM file controls where 
these jars come from when running the Maven commands, so not sure if I am 
just missing something simple here. 

-Kurt