How to execute XSLT 2.0 with ant?

Question

I\'m trying to run an XSLT transformation from an ant file.

I\'m using a XSLT 2.0 stylesheet with a saxon 9 parser (supporting XSLT 2.0).

The problem is that

Answer 1

At least in ant 1.8.0, the xslt task with a specified classpath is very slow. The problem seems to be classpath loading. I ran ant under JDB and it spent all of the extra time in org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.loadClass reading zip files.

I tried this before running ant it it went a lot faster:

ant -lib /path/to/saxon/saxon9.jar

The macrodef from Tom Howard works better, and although it has an odd syntax for XSLT params, at least it's possible.