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AxKit Installation: XML/XSL Project Members' Notes
AxKit is an XML-based Web publishing framework, which is further described in
XML-based Web Publishing Frameworks & Tools.
The following are notes from XML/XSL project members regarding the installation and configuration
of the AxKit software:
Downloading the software
The official AxKit download site
As of early December 2000, the latest available distribution
AxKit 1.1 pre-release
(http://axkit.org/download/AxKit-1.1-pre.tar.gz), should be considered to be the prime
candidate for installation, as it fixes many of the bugs identified in AxKit 1.0.
Installation guides
- Installing mod_perl,
details how to install this Apache module, which is a prerequisite for AxKit.
Stephen Figgins describes
a potentially easier way to install mod_perl in his article,
Installing mod_perl from RPM.
- Rael Dornfest's November 2000 article,
AxKit: An XML-Delivery Toolkit for Apache,
provides step-by-step instructions for installing AxKit's prerequisite Perl modules and
the Sablotron XSLT Processor.
- The Quick Start Guide,
presents the bare-bones basics of installing and configuring AxKit itself.
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An Introduction to AxKit describes how to map XML documents on the Web server
for transformation by the appropriate XSLT or XPathScript stylesheets.
Troubleshooting problems during installation
- The archives of the AxKit-related mailing lists
AxKit Users and
AxKit Developers
are an actively-updated source for troubleshooting-related discussion.
Our installation notes
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