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Building with XSLT
The alternative to using
make is to use XSLT extension functions. Naturally
this will only be possible if you're using a processor
for which the extensions have been implemented. The
Website distribution includes extensions for Xalan and
Saxon.
You can still use other processors such as xsltproc
or MSXML with this method, but the file dependencies
won't be tracked. Dependency tracking means the process
can avoid having to reprocess XML files that have not
changed. So with xsltproc, all the XML files will be
processed every time it is run.
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If the source pages for your website are
stored in several files, this method will
probably will not work correctly all the time.
The extension can only see if the “main” page has
changed, not subsidiary pages that it
(logically) depends on. If you have a complex
source layout, you will probably have to use make.
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Create your webpages and your layout.xml file.
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Use XSLT to create autolayout.xml. Do this by
processing your layout.xml with the autolayout.xsl stylesheet.
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Use XSLT to build the website: process the autolayout.xml file with
the chunk-tabular.xsl
stylesheet. That should build your website.
You can use the output-root parameter to direct
where the result documents are produced.
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