For other people reading this both of these are due to dependency issues with the project. The first is an interaction of cognitec's aws libraries and a third party xml system unrelated to tmd. The second is because cognitec's aws libraries bring in org.asm version 5.0 which is many years out of date while insn and later version of Clojure itself bring in org.asm 7.0+.

Can someone link the relevant issues and @ me?

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api/issues/205 @ghadi

We've had some problems with com.fasterxml/aalto-xml not returning the same results as the default JDK implementation - that is .apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl and com.fasterxml.aalto.stax.StreamReaderImpl did not produce the same output, mostly we observed differences in the tags.