See: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=XMLFormXindice http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/howto/xmlform-wizard/howto-xmlform-wizard.html This dir is sub dir of webapps/cocoon - xindice.jar copied into cocoon/WEB-INF/lib In order to avoid the error: org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: The output format must have a '{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}content-handler' property! - One MUST move the cocoon/WEB-INF/lib: xalan/xerces/xml-apis to go into common/endorsed/ of Tomcat And finaly after an ant build: - the Artist jar need to go to cocoon/WEB-INF/lib