new db2html script

["David C. Mason" <dcm@redhat.com>]

I started to work on an addition to the db2html script (which can then
be extended to the others I just chose db2html for the hell of it). What
I am trying to do is give an option of passing a different stylesheet
into jade. You can find the addition below.

The way I have it now is the same as it is currently (even with the
${DB_STYLESHEET} variable being hard-coded at the top) but with the
added parameter "-d" which is followed by the stylesheet. So the user
would type:

db2html -d /path/to/mystylesheet.dsl myfile.sgml

OK, it works fine for me because I have already removed the \#html
part in the line that calls jade. The problem arises when you are
using a stylesheet such as cygnus-both.dsl that has both html and
print. One option is to have \#html or \#print in the stylesheet
name...  E.g.,
DB_STYLESHEET=/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygnus-both.dsl\#html but that
may not be readily apparent to the user who downloads a cool
stylesheet and can't get it to work because he/she hasn't put \#html
on the end.

What do you guys think? Is there a better way to handle this? Should
we not hardcode \#html and \#print in the script? Do you guys like my
addition?


My addition:

##########################


case $1 in
    -d) DB_STYLESHEET=${2?; shift;;}\
    shift 2

esac
echo "Using stylesheet: \"${DB_STYLESHEET}\""


##########################

If you want to try it out add the lines above starting at line 11. You
will need to get rid of "\#html" in lines 45 or 47 unless your
stylesheet needs it.

Cheers,

Dave

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          David Mason
        Red Hat AD Labs

        dcm@redhat.com