xgoT
What It Does
xgoT is a tool for generating documents from xgo templates.
As the term is used here, a template is a UTF8 document in which the
character sequence ${ (dollar - left bracket) begins a symbol name
and the right bracket } ends the symbol name. When the context is
applied, whatever is between
the brackets is first trimmed (leading and trailing spaces are removed)
and then used to extract the value of the symbol from the
context.
What It’s Used For
Command Line
xgoT is a utility for generating documents from templates given a particular context. For example,
xgoT -c x.ctx -b buildDir a b c
will look for template files a.t, b.t, and c.t in the curent directory, process them in the context defined by x.ctx, and write the resultant output files buildDir/a.md, buildDir/b.md, and buildDir/c.m, with all of the symbolic references, the
${variable}
replaced by their definitions.
It is possible to specify
- the output file extension using -E ext*, which defaults to
.go - the path to source files using -t, which defaults to
./ - an output file prefix using -p
Explanations for these and other options can be found by typing
xgoT -h
and the command line. Alternatively
xgoT -j
will display the current values of command line options and then half.
