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"><head> 3 4 5 6 7 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <title>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</title><meta name="generator" content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 16 17 18 19 20 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 21 22 <body> 23 24 25 <h1>Developing Web Applications with XSLTools</h1> 26 27 28 <p>This documentation introduces the XSLTools package and the XSLForms 29 framework for developing forms-based Web applications using Python, <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html">libxml2dom</a>, 30 libxml2, libxslt and (optionally) <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html">WebStack</a>.</p> 31 32 33 <h2>Setting Up</h2> 34 35 36 <p>First of all, let us assume that the XSLTools distribution has been 37 unpacked and now sits in the <code>XSLTools-0.2</code> directory.</p> 38 39 40 <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the XSLTools package is 41 available 42 to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the <code>XSLTools-0.2</code> directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> 43 script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using 44 (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> 45 46 47 <pre>cd XSLTools-0.2<br />python setup.py install</pre> 48 49 50 <p>If you don't want to install XSLTools in this way, or if you can't 51 do so 52 because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make 53 sure 54 that the <code>XSLTools-0.2</code> directory sits on your 55 <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> 56 57 58 <h2>Viewing the API Documentation</h2> 59 60 61 <p>The API documentation for use in conjunction with this 62 guide can be found inside the <a href="../apidocs/index.html"><code>apidocs</code></a> 63 directory within the <code>XSLTools-0.2</code> directory. Of course, 64 it is always possible to view the API documentation 65 within Python by importing modules (such as <a href="../apidocs/public/XSLTools.XSLOutput-module.html"><code>XSLTools.XSLOutput</code></a>) 66 and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> 67 68 69 <h2>About XSLForms Applications</h2> 70 71 72 <ul> 73 74 75 <li><a href="what.html">What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</a></li> 76 <li><a href="model.html">The XSLForms Conceptual Model</a></li> 77 78 <li><a href="overview.html">Creating Applications: An Overview</a></li> 79 80 81 </ul> 82 83 84 </body></html>
