General
Get Started
Technical
Resources
Index of XPS Documentation
Welcome to the XPS documentation section. This section is maintained by the developers of XPS to help you with your use of the software. The documentation is broken into four main parts described in the links below and accessible in the menu on the left.
General
These documents will give you a general understanding of what XPS is:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Index | The page you're viewing now. |
| Overview | An overview of XPS at a very high level. Read this first. |
| Purpose | The reasons why we think XPS is needed/wanted. |
| Goals | What we hope to accomplish with XPS. |
| Roadmap | This page provides information about the road map to release 1.0. There's lots of work to do, see where you might be able to help out. |
| Milestones | What milestones the XPS project has reached. |
| Motivation | What motivates us to develop XPS |
| Related | Some notes on related work of other people. |
Get Started
These documents will help you get started using XPS:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Obtaining XPS | This page describes the various ways to get the XPS software. |
| Preparing For XPS | This page lists the things your need in order to compile XPS. |
| Building XPS | This page shows you how to build the XPS software. |
| Installing XPS | This page describes how to install the XPS software once it is built. |
| How To Use XPS | This page describes how to use XPS. |
| Developing XPS | This page provides some information on how to assist with the development of XPS. |
| How To Help | Some ways you can help the XPS project. |
Technical
If you want to understand more about the XPS technology, look here:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Syntax vs. Semantics | A description of why we focus on semantics not syntax. |
| Essence of a programming system | Why XPS is unique as a programming system. |
| XPS Architecture | This page describes the relationships between the components of XPS and between XPS and the software it is based on. |
| XPS Tools | This page briefly describes each tool in the XPS tool chain. There are also more detail man pages available |
| XPL | This page provides an overview of the eXtensible Programming Language. |
Resources
Additional resources are available to you:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Project News | Provides the XPS project news |
| SourceForge | The eXtProSys project at SourceForge provides the file
download area, bug and issue tracker, and other facilities. Source code
is not retained at SourceForge as we use Subversion not CVS. |
| WebSVN | This is a webified view of the Subversion source code repository. You can look at the source, review log comments, compare revisions, find out who did what, etc. |
| Doxygen | This is API-level documentation automatically generated from the source code with doxygen. |
| IRC Chat | This is an Internet Relay Chat online discussion group for XPS topics. If you're using an IRC aware browser, clicking the link should take you directly to the discussion. |
| Go To x-p-s.org | This link returns you to the top level of the x-p-s.org site, exiting the documentation section. |
| Go To XSI | This link takes you to eXtensible System, Inc.'s corporate web site. |
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Notices
