Author: Jen Linton
Keywords: installing DITA Open Toolkit, Xalan XSLT processor, installing on Linux, CLASSPATH, CLASSPATH environment variable

# Installing Xalan on Linux

1. Enter the URL:http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xalan-j/
2. From Saxon: The Xalan Processor page, scroll to find the heading xalan-j_2_7_1-bin.tar.gz. Click to download.
3. Save and unzip the xalan-j_2_7_1-bin.tar.gz file to a linux home directory.
4. Add Xalan to the CLASSPATH environment variable.

       export CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${xalan_dir}/bin

Parent topic: Installing the minimal package on Linux