XslWebMaker - Download and Setup

First Published (Original Date):

2005-11-09%

Last Modified (Date):

2021-11-16 15:04

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System Requirements

Windows Script Host (5.6 or above). This ships with Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It is also downloaded with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.
Microsoft's XML Core Services (MSXML) 6.0. Check, for example, msxml6.dll in C:\Windows\System32\. For details see Microsoft's List of Microsoft XML parser (MSXML) versions.

Verify you meet the system requirements. Install Microsoft's XML Core Services (MSXML) 6.0 if needed.
Download XslWebMaker.zip to a temporary directory.
Unzip XslWebMaker.zip to the location for your websites. Eg ~\MyWebSiteProjects
Rename the folder XslWebMaker to the name of your website. Eg ~\MyWebSiteProjects\XslWebMaker -> ~\MyWebSiteProjects\MyWebSite
Run ~\MyWebSiteProjects\MyWebSite\Source\make.bat. You can do this in two ways:
1. Open up a command console and change the path to ~\MyWebSiteProjects\MyWebSite\Source. (To make this easy you could use a window utility like CMenuExtender with the "DOS here" command.) Type make
2. Double click make.bat
This will begin the transformation process on the sample website. The results will be created in ~\MyWebSiteProjects\MyWebSite\WebOut\

Version. 3.05. 2021-12-02 15:18. Bug fixed: files in Source\speech\* were not output to WebOut\speech\*.
Version. 3.04. 2021-12-01 20:45. More lorem.
Version. 3.03. 2021-11-16 14:58. Renamed "pastCalendar.*" to "meetingsPast.*"; transformDir.wsf now processes xsl:include and xsl:import; added meetingsFuture.xslt; added meetingsTable.xslt which meetingsPast.xslt and meetingsFuture.xst now xsl:includes (to demonstrate making an XSLT template use XSLT library code).
Version: 3.01. 2021-11-09 00:26. Simplified description of what XslWebMaker is, in index.html (and XslWebMaker-Intro). Changed logo slogan to "A website from XML files".
Version: 3.00. 2021-11-08 20:47. Updated XslWebMaker to produce more coherent self-documenting output in \WebOut: added an index.html; Renamed the logo to "XslWebMaker"; cleaned up the output html pages; added some explanations in each of the html pages; added a version number to footer of html pages.
Version: 2.31. 2021-11-07 22:44. Fixed bug in that example html pages were not outputting to \WebOut due to the passage of time since 2006 (updated transformDir.wsf).
Version: 2.30. 2006-03-08. Updated XslWebMaker with new xwmToXhtml file. Inline scripts (without a src attribute) are escaped properly with /* <![CDATA[ */.
Version: 2.01. 2006-03-08. Added helpful error message for when your processing instruction can't find the Xsl stylesheet.
Version: 2.00. 2005-11-09 16:31. Release.