The JSR173 is the XML pull API used at build time for the Saxon-B XSLT processor: it has become part of OpenJDK 6. When using an older JDK, you can get the API from http://dist.codehaus.org/stax/jars/ located at the StAX Home site http://stax.codehaus.org/ and put it under stax/download. 1.2 Release(final) is available under the Apache License 2.0. Checksum (for reference): MD5 (stax-1.2.0.jar) = aa3439d235f7d999532b66bac56c1f87