PS  I verified that in addition to org-use-property-inheritance, I have org-babel-use-quick-and-dirty-noweb-expansion set to nil, since the documentation and mailing list indicate that’s not compatible with property inheritance.

It’s good (and bad :) to know it’s just my config, based on it working for you…

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:47 PM, D Bro <dabroyoh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Many thanks—especially for the quick response.  Unfortunately, no go.
> 
> The headline was a copy and paste issue into the email — my org-lint only complains about the :classname (I didn’t even know about org-lint, thank you!)
> Export to Ascii produces:
> 
> … 
> 1 Create
> ========
> 
>   ,----
>   | <<testdemo2>>
>   `----
> 
> 
> 1.1 Let's see what our code-weaving produces
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 1.1.1 this is how we will assemble our code:
> --------------------------------------------
> 
>   ,----
>   | public class Yo {
>   |   public static void main (Args[]) {
>   `----
> 
> 
> 1.1.2 body
> ----------
> 
>   ,----
>   | return "The test worked!";
>   `----
> 
> 
> 1.1.3 foot
> ----------
> 
>   ,----
>   | // <<test-foot>>
>   | }}
>   `----
> 
> 
> 1.1.4 weave together
> --------------------
> 
>   - which will weave together the above blocks to produce this:
> 
>     ,----
>     | cat TestDemo2.java
>     `——
> 
> Ed
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:04 PM, Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu <mailto:ccberry@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, D Bro wrote:
>> 
>>> Both 26.0 and 25.1 on OS X 10.12 via homebrew, using the Spacemacs configuration.
>>> 
>> 
>>> I recently tried the weaving technique from http://orgmode.org/manual/noweb_002dref.html#noweb_002dref <http://orgmode.org/manual/noweb_002dref.html#noweb_002dref> <http://orgmode.org/manual/noweb_002dref.html#noweb_002dref <http://orgmode.org/manual/noweb_002dref.html#noweb_002dref>> :
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Using M-x org-lint on your example gives
>> 
>>     3 high  Unknown header argument ":classname"
>>    12 high  Incorrect location for PROPERTIES drawer
>> 
>> The latter is because the drawer is not immediately after a headline and is disregarded:
>> 
>>> **Let's see what our code-weaving produces
>>> :PROPERTIES:
>>> :header-args: :noweb-ref testdemo2
>>> :END:
>> 
>> If you put a space between `**' and `L[...]' the line becomes a valid headline. Then the TestDemo2 src block produces
>> 
>> ,----
>>  | public class Yo {
>>  | public static void main (Args[]) {
>>  | return "The test worked!";
>>  | //
>>  | }}
>>  | cat TestDemo2.java
>>  `----
>> 
>> on ASCII export.
>> 
>> You can ignore the message about :classname, which comes from ob-java not defining it as a header-arg.
>> 
>> HTH,
>> 
>> Chuck
>