On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:12:23AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
[snip: sgml comments syntax and difficulty therewith]
> ok, fair enough. but until i finish converting the document, is there a
> "safe" way to have jade ignore the part of the document that hasn't been
> converted yet?
>
> i wish there were some kind of preprocessor thing i could use, like:
>
> <para>friends, romans, countrymen. lend me your ears.<para>
>
> #if 0
> not converted yet...
> i come to bury caesar --- not to praise him. the evil that men do [...]
> #endif
LinuxDoc (a predecessor to DocBook) had just that: a preprocessor and some
custom perl to convert into various formats. The modern way (DocBook) is more
compliant with standards (DSSSL, DTD validation) but come at the price of a
heavier, sometimes less flexible system.
The best I can offer is to suggest piping your input through "perl -ne
'print if ! m/^#/'" or similar before running jade.
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