Getting started

Using XSite as a standalone application

Download XSite binary distribution (xsite-distribution-bin.zip) and unzip archive to local filesystem directory of your choice.
Define an environment variable XSITE_HOME to point to the chosen directory.
Add XSITE_HOME/bin to your system path. On UNIX systems, ensure that you have the correct permissions to execute XSITE_HOME/bin/xsite (defaults to chmod ug+rwx o+r). On Windows systems, replace / with \.

The required inputs for XSite are

source directory: specifies the root source directory.
sitemap.xml: specifies the content of the website and the navigation. The file is assumed to be relative to the source directory.
skin.html: specifies the template and style used by XSite. The file is assumed to be relative to the source directory.
resources directory: specifies the resources (images, style, etc ...) that need to be copied to the output directory. The directory is assumed to be relative to the source directory.
output directory: specifies the directory where the generated files will be written to.

To generate site, simply execute

xsite -S [source-directory] -m [relative-path-to-sitemap] -s [relative-path-to-skin]  -o [output-directory]

Executing script without arguments will also result in a usage message.

XSite can be used as a plugin as described in plugins.