Re: -o option and sgml backend?

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> I was mildly surprised to see that jade seems to ignore the -o
> option when the SGML backend is used.  I have a stylesheet that
> uses the element construction rules but never uses make entity.
> Output goes to stdout, and I was hoping -o foo.html would make
> output go to foo.html instead. Is this a known feature? ;-)

Your idea would be good, but obviously it is easy to get the output into
foo.html. :)
 
> On a related note, is there any way for a stylesheet to query what
> filename was given on the -o option?  (I'm guessing, "no".)

I'm confident your guess is correct. The more general question is:
"Wouldn't it be great to be able to feed string-valued arguments into
DSSSL scripts in Jade?" There is a workaround for this one, too, though
more painful. Your makefile or batch script can autogenerate an SGML
entity with the right declarations in it.

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