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Welcome to the Xierpa3 wiki!

Xierpa3 is a framework for object base publications, using Components, Builders, Adapters and Attributes. Generating HTML5+CSS3 configurations (with or without PHP), or PDF, or pixel images. Live or as template files.

For now Xierpa3 is a proof-of-concept "gone live". This means that currently installation may not be as automated and smooth as it will be and themes, examples and documentation are not finished. Parts of Xierpa3 are still under development right now. Classes are available in the source that are still being worked on and tested. This will remain until version 1.0.

But Xierpa is already a great framework to start thinking about the creation of publications through objects, rather than writing websites in CSS+HTML (or PHP) directly.

Getting started

The includes example site "doingbydesign" will include guided instructions how to get started with Python (www.python.org) in general and Xierpa3 in particular. The example sites are set up as an incremental sequence, starting with the most simple "Hello world" site, and then adding styling, adapters, responsive behavior, multiple pages, adapters such as PHP, etc. The final example is the complete documentation website for Xierpa3, showing all the aspects of the system in code as well as page content.

The online version of the documentation site is available as soon as the functions in Xierpa3 are up to date.

Also under development is the Xierpa3App, an OSX desktop application that functions as a wrapper around the Xierpa3 library. Since the application acts like a desktop webserver, it allows testing of the example sites without installing any Python libraries. Also it is the platform in which alterations can be made to existing style sets, buth by UI functions or by scripting.

The Xierpa3App will be available for download in the near future.