(dsssl) file I/O and system call in dsssl

[Philip J Grabner <grabner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

in my docbook stylesheets i would like to be able to do some simple file
management (such as copying and creating directories), but have not really
found a way to do this with the openjade processor. scheme48 (at
www.s48.org) mentions posix implementations... is there anything like that
available for openjade?

or is there perhaps some equivalent to the C system() call? so that i
could do something like (system "mkdir my-dir")?

to copy files i was able to create the following hack:

  (define (copy-file source destination)
    (make entity
      system-id: (html-entity-file destination)
      (make formatting-instruction data: (read-entity source))))

but i am fairly sure this is not the "right" way...
(especially if i am trying to copy images).

thanks in advance,
phil


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