DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem executing Xalan or Saxon...

[Dan York <dyork@e-smith.com>]

Folks,

My laptop died this morning, taking with it my XSL processing environment!
It's going in for repair, but in the meantime, I'm getting my (RH Linux 6.2)
desktop at work set up to work with XML/XSL. I installed everything[1],
but now with either Saxon or Xalan, I get an error like this (for Saxon):

  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
  org/icl/saxon/Stylesheet

with Xalan it is:

  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
  org/apache/xalan/xslt/Process

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  I think I've duplicated
the steps I went through on my laptop... and it's frustrating that it
doesn't work.

Thanks,
Dan

[1] I installed JRE 1.3.1, Xalan 2.1.0, Saxon 6.2.2, and Norm's XSL
stylesheets 1.40. All of these were downloaded *today* from their
original distribution web sites.

The commands I used were (split into multiple lines):

  $ java com.icl.saxon.Stylesheet test.xml
  /usr/share/sgml/docbook-xsl-1.40/html/docbook.xsl

  $ java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in test.xml -out test.html -xsl
  /usr/share/sgml/docbook-xsl-1.40/html/docbook.xsl

My PATH variable includes the java executable.  My CLASSPATH is set to:

  .:/usr/share/xalan/xalan.jar:/usr/share/xalan/xerces.jar:/usr/share/xalan/samples/xalansamples.jar:/usr/share/xalan/bsf.jar:/usr/share/saxon/saxon.jar:/usr/share/saxon/saxon-fop.jar

Xalan is in /usr/share/xalan, Saxon in /usr/share/saxon.  The 'test.xml'
file is a very basic DocBook XML file that processed perfectly fine with
the identical setup on my laptop.

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