"not right" wrote:
> Out of sheer curiosity, I downloaded the source
Which source? There are two projects. I assume that you are talking about EXSLT.dll
> and tried to compile it, but gave up after I
> came across one error after another.
How did you try to compile the source?
> I am not a C programmer by trade,
This most probably is the source of your difficulties.
> but I believe many projects on SourceForge are > released in such a way so that they can be
> simply unzipped and compiled with little or
> no problems.
This is exactly the case.
More precisely:
1. The exsltdll.zip archive must be extracted preserving the directory structure.
2. MS Visual Studio 6.0(VC++ 6.0) must be started and the workspace (EXSLT.dsw) must be opened. This is the only .dsw file, so a VC++ programmer does not have any difficulty in building the project.
3. From the "Build" menu select "Rebuild all"
This is everything necessary to build the project and there have been no problems raised since the beginning of June, two months ago, when this archive was first put in sourceforge.net.
>
> Whilst I dug around the source for clues, I
> discovered that the very stylesheets described > in the article are not part of the source.
Not true -- they are contained in the resource files of the project.
In the Workspace window (View->Workspace) click on the Resource View tab. The stylesheets can be viewed as string resources of the project.
> On
> my hunt for the missing files and possibly some > instructions, I discovered (by simply opening
> the command line executable in a text editor)
> the missing stylesheets but again not readily
> available as part of any of the source on
> SourceForge.
This must be a joke -- the stylesheets are not part of exMsxsl.exe
They are part of EXSLT.dll, which is not a command-line executable.
As explained above, the stylesheets are available in source and can be viewed in resource view.
Also, the stylesheets were published in a pretty-printed format in the article itself. This *is* the recommended source for reading by a human reader as opposed to building the project automatically by the Visual Studio 6 IDE.
>
> I think the author needs to release the source > in a more user friendly manner before anyone
> can begin to rely on the compiled versions as
> they stand.
As explained above, the stylesheets are part of the source.
I encourage anyone to build the project.
Although you are the only one, who has experienced difficulties in building the project (which is understandable for a person without experience with the Visual Studio 6 VC++ IDE), I would be happy to help in case you continue to have problems in understanding the build process.
Please, contact me offline, in the highly unlikely case if you still cannot build the project. Providing a real name would certainly be helpful.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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