Apache Ant/Running Saxon

Motivation You want to have an Apache Ant task that runs the Saxon XSLT transform. Method Download the Saxon jar file. Put the saxon.jar file in a lib folder. Run the following test. Source Code Build File The following is how Saxon is invoked from Apache Ant. <target name="test-saxon"> <xslt classpath="lib\saxon8.jar" in="in.xml" out="out.html" style="check-version.xsl"> <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/> </xslt> </target> Note that if you are running in Eclipse you will have to go to the "Preferences" menu and add the saxon9.jar file to Ant/Runtime/Ant Home Entries. Just click the "Add JARs" and add the saxon9jar file the end of this list. XSLT Version Check check-version.xsl: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <results> <Version><xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:version')" /></Version> <Vendor><xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor')" /></Vendor> <Vendor-URL><xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor-url')" /></Vendor-URL> </results> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Or if you are generating a web page: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>XSL Version</title> </head> <body> <p>Version: <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:version')" /> <br /> Vendor: <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor')" /> <br /> Vendor URL: <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor-url')" /> </p> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Results for XALAN Results for Apache XALAN 1.0 Vendor: Apache Software Foundation (Xalan XSLT) Vendor URL: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j Results for Saxon Version: 2.0 Vendor: SAXON 9.1.0.7 from Saxonica Vendor URL: http://www.saxonica.com/