SilkPage uses Ant to automate your site generation, validation and upload.
Based on your XML content, SilkPage generates XHTML output.
SilkPage uses Tidy to validate and eventually fix the generated XHTML.
SilkPage facilitates the upload of your Website by using a
FTP based file transfer. Assuming
that you have used the scratch target like it was shown in
Example 2.1,
“Create Site Scratch”, you need to run SilkPage
with the preview target to
have the draft version of your Website generated.
As shown in the above example, you can generate a draft version
of your Website locally. This local version will be used to upload
your Website when running SilkPage with the publish target. In order to publish
your Website online, you need to run SilkPage with the publish target, as shown in Example 2.7,
“Publishing your Website Online”.
Refer to Appendix C, Command Line Options for detailed information about SilkPage command line options.