Just to confirm what others have said: When you use the -jar option on the
command line, the classpath is ignored. This has nothing to do with Saxon,
and nothing to do with the operating system, it is a "feature" of Java
itself.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ylvisaker, Steve [mailto:steve.j.ylvisaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 January 2009 15:33
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  RE: How to call an external Java function
> 
> Yes - that is the command line I am using. I'm not very 
> concerned because Unix is my ultimate target environment and 
> I doubt that I will have similar problems there. I'm writing 
> it off as a Windows issue for now and driving on as I have a 
> work around. Thanks for your concern. This has been an education.
> 
> Steve 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florent Georges [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:04 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  RE: How to call an external Java function
> 
> "Ylvisaker, Steve" wrote:
> 
> > It has become evident that Saxon does not pay attention to 
> the global 
> > classpath setting
> 
>   You didn't say how you launch Saxon.  Do you use something 
> like that:
> 
>     java -cp ... -jar .../saxon9.jar ...
> 
>   Regards,
> 
> --
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/
> 
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