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Wed Dec 16 15:42:32 PST 2009


Bruce Easton wrote:
> 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.
>
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>   

He might need to prefix those 2 lines on the fly after the file gets 
created, at the @done tag
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