[Docutils-users] rst2html5.py --template from file is not replacing {head} and {body} placeholders in output

[Sorin P. <sor...@gm...>]

Hello!
(I am not a subscriber of the mailing list and this is my first message.)

I have an issue using --template from file: the {head} and {body}
placeholders are not replaced. I installed docutils 0.18.1 using pip3
install docutils on Majaro Linux. The template I'm using does not
contain something different than the example template, only the URLs
inside are changed and a <div> added around {body}.
When I'm not using --template, the html is generated properly. When
using --template from file, the generated document is the same as the
template and it contains the placeholders, just like the template was
copied over as output.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
Command: rst2html5.py --template='site-root/htdocs/template.html'
--no-source-link --report=${ERROR_LEVEL} --no-generator
--toc-entry-backlinks --no-section-numbering --strip-comments --strict
--tab-width=4 doc.rst >> doc.html

Thank you!

-- 
Sorin Pânca.