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Wed Dec 16 14:57:07 PST 2009

Fairlight wrote Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:41 PM:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:34:44PM -0500, Bruce Easton, the 
> prominent pundit,
> witicized:
> > 
> > But to me sometimes having to have something above the 
> <html opening 
> > tag in the output is reason enough to stay away from the 
> internal fp 
> > html commands altogether.
> 
> Depends...does it truncate or append when you start?  If 
> append, you could pre-populate the required data, then use 
> the html stuff.  I don't recommend it, I'm saying it might be 
> possible.
> 
> m->
> --

Well -I tried some things with variations on the fp HTML :cr 
command, and I don't believe Marv can use it to start off his 
output document.  

I was not able to get anything other than one type of document 
type specification by using the :dt option.  But maybe there are 
reserved codes that come after the :dt to set up for different doc 
types. I couldn't find any documentation of such.

BUT, you can use:

	html :cr [outdocpathandname] :tx [other stuff]

and that output (otherstuff) does appear *before* 
the <HTML> tag.  So I tried it with Marv's requirement and it 
worked fine to handle the document type spec.

What I could not find a way to do is embed anything else within 
the <HTML> tag as in <HTML xmlns="....">.  I even tried using :zz 
and that didn't help.  (5.0.14).

And to answer your question Mark, I don't believe there is any 
way to use fp's HTML commands to append to a file.

So back to saying 'just use open and writeline, for crying out loud..' :)

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.