Ok, I am confused now. A week ago I was told that jaxp.jar and parse.jar where not needed is you had xerces.jar in the path. I have xerces.jar in ant/lib and ANT will still complain about JAXP. I then added jaxp.jar and parse.jar and now things work. So what is the right way? Is there something else I have to do to get ANT working with xerces? Jose Alberto