On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 01:14:22 schrieb Yawar Amin: >> David, >> >> On 2012-02-24, at 19:52, David Carlson wrote: >>> […] >>> >>> in a command window in Windows 7 I succeeded in checking out >>> […] >>> >>> Do I need to install xmllint separately from subversion? If so, how do >>> I do that? >> >> Sorry, just noticed you’re on Windows. My advice is skip trying to use >> xmllint and just try to get the xsltproc tool set up on your system. >> http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html seems to be the ‘official’ way to >> get the Windows executables and it has an explanation (in the section >> called ‘Getting the Binaries’) from which I understand you’ll need to >> download the following packages: zlib, iconv, libxml, libxslt. IMO you can >> skip reading the rest of the page, because you’re not trying to use these >> packages to develop your own C programs. > > That's true: I don't think it is reasonable to try to set up xmllint on > Windows. On the other hand, I even doubt it is possible to set up xsltproc on > Windows with reasonable effort. @David: Maybe it is possible for you, but if > you encounter problems, I'd suggest not to spend too much time on this. > Rather, just send your edited xml files to here and ask the list (including > Yawar) to send you the processed output "because you're on Windows and you > don't have the tools". > > Then again, maybe it's also possible for you to set up a virtual machine on > your computer with some Ubuntu linux inside? You would edit your xml files on > Windows as usual, then copy them somewhere so that the linux virtual machine > can access it, then run xsltproc on the linux virtual machine to produce your > output.
Good grief. Just because xsltproc doesn't run on windows (which it actually does [1]) there are surely XSLT processors which do. SAXON [2], written by XML God Michael Kay, is in Java and will run anywhere Java does. Regards, John Ralls [1] http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html [2] http://saxon.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
