What do I need to use this utility, do I have to go to a command prompt and go to the directory where I extract the file?
But when I do this, and type “make INFILE=filename.xml” and I replace filename.xml by example2.xml, nothing happened.
What does mean terminal in that case, a DOS prompt? or what?
Can someone translate this paragraph:
“To generate a form from an .XML file, open up a terminal, go to the directory you have extracted xmlformgen into, and type “make INFILE=filename.xml”, where filename.xml is the name of a xml document you’ve created, or one of the example .xml files that comes with xmlformgen. This will create a form contained in a directory (named after the form).”
Two paragraphs earlier, you will find the software’s dependencies. This software requires a shell environment, make, and either xalan-C++, or on a newer version (still releasing…) gnome’s xsltproc tool.
Since you mention DOS, I’m going to assume you’re running a windows based platform, in which case, i would expect to start by installing cygwin to get a working make, and bash environment. I would check during install to see if it has an xsltproc or xalan-C++ package.
list-in-general: what are you using to run the perl based form generator under windows?