How to exclude group from ear lib group

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1

I have a build.gradle with dom4j group included with earlib and need to exclude:
group: ‘net.java.dev.msv’, name: ‘xsdlib’, version: ‘2013.6.1’. How do I do that?

apply plugin: 'java'

ear {
    generateDeploymentDescriptor  = false
    from ('core/xml/application') {
        into 'META-INF'
    }
}

dependencies {
    earlib group: 'org.dom4j', name: 'dom4j', version: '2.1.3' 
}
2

I ended up doing this:

ear {
    generateDeploymentDescriptor  = false
    from ('core/xml/application') {
        into 'META-INF'
    }
    
    rootSpec.exclude('**/xsdlib-2013.6.1.jar')
}