Xerces dependency causing problems running Cascalog queries using JTS

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12/05/27 05:42:18 ERROR conf.Configuration: Failed to set setXIncludeAware(true) for parser org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl@5df9cdda:java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This parser does not support specification "null" version "null"
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This parser does not support specification "null" version "null"
	at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setXIncludeAware(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:590)
	at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResource(Configuration.java:1053)
	at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResources(Configuration.java:1029)
	at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getProps(Configuration.java:979)
	at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.get(Configuration.java:381)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.checkAndWarnDeprecation(JobConf.java:1630)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.<init>(JobConf.java:164)
	at cascading.flow.hadoop.HadoopPlanner.createJobConf(HadoopPlanner.java:114)
	at cascading.flow.hadoop.HadoopPlanner.initialize(HadoopPlanner.java:167)
	at cascading.flow.FlowConnector.connect(FlowConnector.java:577)
	at cascading.flow.FlowConnector.connect(FlowConnector.java:570)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeMatchingMethod(Reflector.java:92)
	at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeInstanceMethod(Reflector.java:30)
	at cascalog.api$compile_flow.doInvoke(api.clj:222)
	at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:137)
	at clojure.core$apply.invoke(core.clj:600)
	at cascalog.api$_QMARK__.doInvoke(api.clj:234)
	at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:436)
	at user$eval1846.invoke(NO_SOURCE_FILE:6)
	at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6465)
	at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6431)
	at clojure.core$eval.invoke(core.clj:2795)
	at clojure.main$repl$read_eval_print__5967.invoke(main.clj:244)
	at clojure.main$repl$fn__5972.invoke(main.clj:265)
	at clojure.main$repl.doInvoke(main.clj:265)
	at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:512)
	at user$eval27$acc__3261__auto____30$fn__32.invoke(NO_SOURCE_FILE:1)
	at clojure.lang.AFn.run(AFn.java:24)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)