1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3 <head> 4 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 5 <title>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</title> 6 <meta name="generator" 7 content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 8 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 9 </head> 10 <body> 11 <h1>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</h1> 12 <p>This documentation introduces the XSLTools package and the XSLForms 13 framework for developing forms-based Web applications using Python, <a 14 href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html">libxml2dom</a>, 15 libxml2, libxslt and (optionally) <a 16 href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html">WebStack</a>.</p> 17 <h2>Setting Up</h2> 18 <p>First of all, let us assume that the XSLTools distribution has been 19 unpacked and now sits in the <code>XSLTools-0.1</code> directory.</p> 20 <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the XSLTools package is 21 available 22 to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the <code>XSLTools-0.1</code> 23 directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> 24 script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using 25 (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> 26 <pre>cd XSLTools-0.1<br />python setup.py install</pre> 27 <p>If you don't want to install XSLTools in this way, or if you can't 28 do so 29 because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make 30 sure 31 that the <code>XSLTools-0.1</code> directory sits on your 32 <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> 33 <h2>Viewing the API Documentation</h2> 34 <p>The API documentation for use in conjunction with this 35 guide can be found inside the <a href="../apidocs/index.html"><code>apidocs</code></a> 36 directory within the <code>XSLTools-0.1</code> directory. Of course, 37 it is always possible to view the API documentation 38 within Python by importing modules (such as <a 39 href="../apidocs/public/XSLOutput-module.html"><code>XSLOutput</code></a>) 40 and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> 41 <h2>About XSLForms Applications</h2> 42 <ul> 43 <li><a href="overview.html">Creating Applications: An Overview</a></li> 44 </ul> 45 </body> 46 </html>