I get the following Exception when i execute this line in a servlet: Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(xslDomSource); what i tried until now: execute this line in a normal class and there everything works fine. rename xalan.jar and xerces.jar to axalan.jar and axerces.jar so that thy are set 1st in the classpath. when i do this i got the Exception java.lang.AbstractMethodError. Does anybody know what i have to do so that xsl-transformation work with servlets? many thanks, Hans-Jürgen java.lang.NoSuchMethodError at org.apache.xpath.DOM2Helper.getNamespaceOfNode(DOM2Helper.java:348) at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.startNode(TreeWalker.java:343) at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.traverse(TreeWalker.java:167) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.processFromNode(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:225) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.processFromNode(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:324) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:865) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:747) at formel1.Transform.XML2Html(Transform.java:156) at formel1.Ergebnisse.doGet(Ergebnisse.java:51) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758) java.lang.AbstractMethodError at org.apache.xpath.DOM2Helper.getNamespaceOfNode(DOM2Helper.java:348) at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.startNode(TreeWalker.java:343) at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.traverse(TreeWalker.java:167) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.processFromNode(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:225) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.processFromNode(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:324) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:865) at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTransformer(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:747) at formel1.Transform.XML2Html(Transform.java:156) at formel1.Ergebnisse.doGet(Ergebnisse.java:51) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758)