Install xslide

Extract the xslide archive

Extract the xslide archive into a temporary directory like c:\temp.

Copy Emacs lisp files to the Emacs site-lisp directory

Copy all .el files and the file xslide-initial.xsl to your common Emacs site-lisp directory, e.g. C:\Programs\emacsen\site-lisp

Byte-compile the Emacs lisp files

In Emacs, run the following commmand Alt-x byte-compile-file path/to/xslide-file in turn for each of the files xslide.el, xslide-abbrev.el, xslide-data.el, xslide-font.el, xslide-process.el.

Modify _emacs

Insert the following code into your _emacs file:

;; XSL mode (using the xslide package)
(autoload 'xsl-mode "xslide" "Major mode for XSL stylesheets." t)

;; Turn on font lock when in XSL mode
(add-hook 'xsl-mode-hook
      'turn-on-font-lock)

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append
       (list
    '("\\.fo" . xsl-mode)
    '("\\.xsl" . xsl-mode))
       auto-mode-alist))

;; Uncomment if using abbreviations
;; (abbrev-mode t)