1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> 4 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 5 <title>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</title> 6 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 7 <body> 8 <h1>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</h1> 9 <p>This documentation introduces the XSLTools package and the XSLForms 10 framework for developing forms-based Web applications using Python, <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html">libxml2dom</a>, 11 libxml2, libxslt and (optionally) <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html">WebStack</a>.</p> 12 <h2>Setting Up</h2> 13 <p>First of all, let us assume that the XSLTools distribution has been 14 unpacked and now sits in the <code>XSLTools-0.4.7</code> directory.</p> 15 <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the XSLTools package is 16 available 17 to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the <code>XSLTools-0.4.7</code> directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> 18 script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using 19 (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> 20 <pre>cd XSLTools-0.4.7<br />python setup.py install</pre> 21 <p>If you don't want to install XSLTools in this way, or if you can't 22 do so 23 because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make 24 sure 25 that the <code>XSLTools-0.4.7</code> directory sits on your 26 <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> 27 <h2>Viewing the API Documentation</h2> 28 <p>The API documentation for use in conjunction with this 29 guide can be found inside the <a href="../apidocs/index.html"><code>apidocs</code></a> 30 directory within the <code>XSLTools-0.4.7</code> directory. Of course, 31 it is always possible to view the API documentation 32 within Python by importing modules (such as <a href="../apidocs/public/XSLTools.XSLOutput-module.html"><code>XSLTools.XSLOutput</code></a>) 33 and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> 34 <h2>About XSLForms Applications</h2> 35 <ul> 36 <li><a href="what.html">What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</a></li> 37 <li><a href="model.html">The XSLForms Conceptual Model</a></li> 38 <li><a href="overview.html">Creating Applications: An Overview</a></li> 39 </ul> 40 </body></html>