Installing SAXON on Windows

  1. Enter the URL: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/.
  2. From SAXON: The XSLT and XQuery Processor page, scroll to find the heading Saxon 6.5.5.
  3. Select Download. The SourceForge.net page opens with a list of download options.
  4. Select any of the images to start the download.
  5. Click Save to unzip the saxon6.5.5.zip file and save it to the C:\ directory as saxon.
  6. Add C:\saxon\saxon.jar to the CLASSPATH environment variable.
  7. Set up ANT_OPTS. For example: set ANT_OPTS=%ANT_OPTS% -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory= com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl