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. 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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