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Expression Quick Start
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Requirements
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Debian (sarge and sid) packages:
libxml2-python2.3
libxslt1-python2.3
python2.3-pyopenssl
For DBXML support, add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.lesdeveloppementsdurables.org/debian/ sarge dbxml2 python-bsddb3
then install package libdbxml-python
Minimal knownledge of the following specifications:
XForms (proposed replacement for HTML forms)
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms
XML Schema (alternative to DTDs)
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
XPath (API to query XML nodes)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
XSLT
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
For Tidy <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/> support, add packages:
libtidy
python2.3-ctypes
and install Python library uTidyLib <http://utidylib.berlios.de/>:
python setup.py install --prefix /usr/local
For SVG support, you need package svg2png, add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://cairographics.org/packages/debian/ unstable/
CVS Checkout
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export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.labs.libre-entreprise.org:/cvsroot/expression'
cvs login
cvs -z3 checkout expression
Registering XML catalog directories
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As root (or a member of group "staff" so you can write below /usr/local):
for d in entities schema misc
do
ln -s $PWD/xml/$d /usr/local/share/xml/$d/expression
done
As root:
./install-catalogs
Launching the server
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ln -s src expression
./expression-server -h
./expression-server -F -ldebug --debug --no-email -f config-simple.xml
Testing
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Go to http://localhost:1997/
You should see a nice test page.
Learning
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Some documentation at http://expression.entrouvert.org/documentation.xml
and under docs/
Complaining
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Subscribe and send complaints to the project's development mailing list.
http://lists.labs.libre-entreprise.org/mailman/listinfo/expression-devel