Re: xslt task in Ant: the classpath attribute

<!-- Create JPA config file -->
<target name="createJpaConfigFile" depends="init, init.build" description="Creates the JPA config file persistence.xml">
	<record name="${logs}/deploy.create-jpa-config.log" action="start" loglevel="verbose"/>
	<echo message="${SAXONBOILERPLATE}"/>
	<xslt style="${framework.jpa}/makePersistenceXml.xsl"
		in="${framework.jpa}/template.persistence.xml"
		out="${work}/META-INF/persistence.xml"
		classpath="${xslt.engine}"
		force="true"
		>
		<param name="config.dir" expression="${user.config.out}"/>
	</xslt>
	<copy file="${framework.jpa}/persistence_1_0.xsd" todir="${work}/META-INF"
		 preservelastmodified="true"
	/>
	<record name="${logs}/deploy.create-jpa-config.log" action="stop"/>
</target>

${xslt.engine} points to the saxon9.jar in WEB-INF/lib. It seems to work,
if we remove the classpath entry, we got lots of syntax errors (the
stylesheets are XSLT 2.0 and use XSLT 2.0 stuff like sequence constructors).

Does anyone use the classpath attribute of the xslt task in Ant, for example

<xslt classpath="e:/saxon-build/9.2.0.3/hej/saxon9he.jar"

?

According to the documentation, the TransformerFactory is loaded using this
classpath. But I have never been able to make it work. I have to specify the
classpath in the -lib option when invoking ant from the command line.

Regards,

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