> i few minutes ago i've started to use saxon8.jar with the 
> provided samples.

Best place for Saxon questions is the saxon-help list or forum reachable via

http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon
> 
> no prob until i've reached "Shakespeare Example" with the 
> following script :
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env zsh
> 
> java -cp ../saxonb8-9j/saxon8.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform \
>           ../saxon-resources8-9/samples/data/othello.xml \
>           ../saxon-resources8-9/samples/styles/play.xsl dir=playhtml
> 
> no error no output )))

Add the -t option and it will tell you where it's put the output files.
> 
> 
> also i wanted to try-out the next axample "The Bible" but was 
> unable to find the input nt.xml.
> 

The documentation at

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/samples/bible.html

tells you where to get the data file.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/