XMLPublication user documentation

by J.M. Vanel , Copyright © J.M. Vanel - 2001 Back to main page

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Installation

First you need a Java runtime or JDK; I use a 1.3 JDK.

We thrive to make installation easier, our goal is "no installation". We hope that an Ant build file will be able to fetch everything. But for now, this is it:

plus for desktop publishing connectors (optional, not needed if your source documents are regular XHTML) :

Basic use

  1. copy the directory empty_project/ into a new directory (no space in directory name), say myProject/
  2. drop in myProject/ any number of source documents:
  3. type "ant edit" in a shell (Unix or Cygwin or DOS) in myProject/ directory
  4. possibly edit the USER_SETTINGS/thesaurus.xml file in the newly appeared window; I reassure you, it works unchanged
  5. type "ant" in a shell
  6. direct your browser to the generated pages at html/index.html
  7. possibly repeat steps 2 to 6 (or 3 to 6); at 4 possibly edit other things in USER_SETTINGS/ directory (see below)
  8. upload the html directory to your Web site
  9. type "ant clean" in a shell , or just "ant clean-html"

Customization

Document treatment

Web pages

Ressources

XML editors : these are good for DTD-less documents :

Recommanded (X)HTML editor :

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ from W3C, a good (X)HTML editor, with MVC design, and SVG and MathML capabilities; converts HTML to XHTML and windows-1252 encoding to iso-8859-1 or utf-8

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