resolved as follows: 1. add -verbose flag to last line of ant script ($JAVACMD -verbose . . . ) 2. this reveals that missing classes aren't xml classes at all; they're jakarta oro classes. 3. ant optional.jar includes classes that depend upon jakarta oro package. 4. download from http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/. no more modern v. classic compiler probs; no more xml classpath probs.
- No JAXP compliant XML parser found null device
- null device
