Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting SGML comments with $html-body-start$

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ "John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org> was heard to say:
|   (define ($html-body-start$)
|     (literal "<!-- #include file=\"header.html\" -->"))
| 
| I obviously don't want the server-side #include to show up if the file
| is viewed directly, but the stylesheet seems to totally ignore the
| comment, inserting nothing at all.  If I change the "<!--" to a 

Well, that's because the stylesheets are SGML documents, so what Jade
sees is:

   (define ($html-body-start$)
     (literal ""))

| Any way around this?  If not, I guess I can add a sed post-processing
| step to hack in the comments, but I'd much rather keep it simple.  I'm
| using the 1.57 stylesheets.

Try this:

(define ($html-body-start$)
  (make sequence
    (make formatting-instruction data: "&#60!--")
    (literal "#include file=\"header.html\""))
    (make formatting-instruction data: "-->")))

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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