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| paulb@106 | 7 | <h1>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</h1> |
| paulb@106 | 8 | <p>This documentation introduces the XSLTools package and the XSLForms |
| paulb@119 | 9 | framework for developing forms-based Web applications using Python, <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html">libxml2dom</a>, |
| paulb@119 | 10 | libxml2, libxslt and (optionally) <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html">WebStack</a>.</p> |
| paulb@106 | 11 | <h2>Setting Up</h2> |
| paulb@106 | 12 | <p>First of all, let us assume that the XSLTools distribution has been |
| paulb@557 | 13 | unpacked and now sits in the <code>XSLTools-0.4.4</code> directory.</p> |
| paulb@106 | 14 | <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the XSLTools package is |
| paulb@106 | 15 | available |
| paulb@557 | 16 | to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the <code>XSLTools-0.4.4</code> directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> |
| paulb@106 | 17 | script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using |
| paulb@106 | 18 | (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> |
| paulb@557 | 19 | <pre>cd XSLTools-0.4.4<br />python setup.py install</pre> |
| paulb@106 | 20 | <p>If you don't want to install XSLTools in this way, or if you can't |
| paulb@106 | 21 | do so |
| paulb@106 | 22 | because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make |
| paulb@106 | 23 | sure |
| paulb@557 | 24 | that the <code>XSLTools-0.4.4</code> directory sits on your |
| paulb@106 | 25 | <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> |
| paulb@106 | 26 | <h2>Viewing the API Documentation</h2> |
| paulb@106 | 27 | <p>The API documentation for use in conjunction with this |
| paulb@106 | 28 | guide can be found inside the <a href="../apidocs/index.html"><code>apidocs</code></a> |
| paulb@557 | 29 | directory within the <code>XSLTools-0.4.4</code> directory. Of course, |
| paulb@106 | 30 | it is always possible to view the API documentation |
| paulb@203 | 31 | within Python by importing modules (such as <a href="../apidocs/public/XSLTools.XSLOutput-module.html"><code>XSLTools.XSLOutput</code></a>) |
| paulb@106 | 32 | and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> |
| paulb@118 | 33 | <h2>About XSLForms Applications</h2> |
| paulb@118 | 34 | <ul> |
| paulb@128 | 35 | <li><a href="what.html">What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</a></li> |
| paulb@119 | 36 | <li><a href="model.html">The XSLForms Conceptual Model</a></li> |
| paulb@118 | 37 | <li><a href="overview.html">Creating Applications: An Overview</a></li> |
| paulb@118 | 38 | </ul> |
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