-verbatim tag from Mike Dickson

CGI.pm

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use Carp 'croak';
 # The most recent version and complete docs are available at:
 #   http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/
 
-$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.81 2002-12-03 15:03:22 lstein Exp $';
+$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.82 2002-12-03 15:22:26 lstein Exp $';
 $CGI::VERSION='2.90';
 
 # HARD-CODED LOCATION FOR FILE UPLOAD TEMPORARY FILES.
@@ -6326,6 +6326,23 @@ http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/Wd-css-1.html for more information.
 Pass an array reference to B<-style> in order to incorporate multiple
 stylesheets into your document.
 
+Should you wish to incorporate a verbatim stylesheet that includes
+arbitrary formatting in the header, you may pass a -verbatim tag to
+the -style hash, as follows:
+
+print $q->start_html (-STYLE  =>  {-verbatim => '@import
+url("/server-common/css/'.$cssFile.'");',
+                      -src      =>  '/server-common/css/core.css'});
+</blockquote></pre>
+
+
+This will generate an HTML header that contains this:
+
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  href="/server-common/css/core.css">
+   <style type="text/css">
+   @import url("/server-common/css/main.css");
+   </style>
+
 =head1 DEBUGGING
 
 If you are running the script from the command line or in the perl

cgi_docs.html

@@ -3551,6 +3551,32 @@ <h2><a name="stylesheets">Limited Support for Cascading Style Sheets</a></h2>
 multiple stylesheets into your document.
 
 <p>
+
+Should you wish to incorporate a verbatim stylesheet that includes
+arbitrary formatting in the header, you may pass a -verbatim tag to
+the -style hash, as follows:
+
+<pre><blockquote>
+print $q-&gt;start_html (-STYLE  =&gt;  {-verbatim =&gt; '@import
+url("/server-common/css/'.$cssFile.'");',
+                      -src      =&gt;  '/server-common/css/core.css'});
+</blockquote></pre>
+
+<p>
+
+This will generate HTML like this:
+
+<pre><blockquote>
+&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
+ href="/server-common/css/core.css">
+
+   &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
+   @import url("/server-common/css/main.css");
+   &lt;/style&gt;
+</blockquote></pre>
+
+<p>
+
 <a href="#contents">Table of contents</a>
 
 <hr>
@@ -4687,6 +4713,7 @@ <H2><a name="bugs">Bug Reports</a></H2>
 <H2><A NAME="new">Revision History</A></H2>
 <h3>Version 2.90</h3>
 <ol>
+  <li>Added a -verbatim option to stylesheet generation from Michael Dickson
   <li>Faster delete() method from Neelam Gupta
   <li>Fixed broken Cygwin support.
   <li>Added empty charset support from Bradley Baetz
@@ -5701,6 +5728,6 @@ <H3>Bug fixes</H3>
 <a href="http://www.cshl.org/">Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</a></ADDRESS>
 <P>
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-Last modified: Tue Dec  3 10:03:05 EST 2002
+Last modified: Tue Dec  3 10:22:19 EST 2002
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 </BODY> </HTML>