Re: [q-lang-users] Avoiding trailing () in CGIs

[<Dr....@t-...>]

 > The problem is, if I write something like this:
 >
 >  | #!/usr/local/bin/q
 >  | #! -q
 >  | #! -s
 >  | #! -p .: [list of directories]
 >  | #!  -cmain ARGS
 > [snip much programming]
 >  | def PAGE=strcat [MimeType, cookies, "\n", BODY];
 >  | main ARGS = writes PAGE ;
 >
 > then obviously my webpage comes out with `()' on the bottom. This
 > invalidates the generated RSS stream or XHTML page.

Solution: Either terminate your main function with something like `quit' 
or `exit 0' (i.e., main ARGS = writes PAGE || quit;), or add this to the 
-c line (e.g., #! -c main ARGS||quit). This causes the interpreter to 
exit before it prints the result expression.

Hope this helps!

 > I'm playing around with Q for use as web CGIs - scripts build up XML data
 > and transform it with sablotron prior to printing it out.

Interesting! I'm contemplating the idea to write an XML parser/unparser 
module for Q, but as I don't know much about XML I could use some 
assistance. Willing to help?

Cheers,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag