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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+"A converter from TEI to HTML."
+
+__version__ = "1.0"
+__date__ = "20190408"
+__author__ = "sgfroerer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de"
+
+from utils.load_config import load_config, check_executable, exec_command, ToFile
+import utils.libeoaconvert as libeoaconvert
+
+import logging
+import argparse
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# things to be done
+# assign ids top to bottom for the following elements:
+# div1 div2 div3 note item table EOAfigure EOAequation formula theorem
+
+BASE_DIR = Path( __file__ ).resolve().parent
+SCRIPT_NAME = Path( __file__).stem
+
+def check_executables():
+    check_executable( "saxon" )
+
+def main(
+        input_file,
+        root_dir,
+        xslt_file,
+        params,
+        output_file = None
+):
+    """Main function"""
+
+    output_options = ""
+    if output_file is not None:
+        output_options = f"-o:{output_file}"
+    cmd = \
+        "saxon -t {output_options} -s:{input_file} -xsl:{xslt_file} domain={root_dir}".format(
+            xslt_file = (BASE_DIR / "tei2html" / xslt_file),
+            input_file = input_file,
+            root_dir = root_dir,
+            output_options = output_options
+        )
+    for param in params:
+        cmd += (" " + param)
+    exec_command(
+       cmd 
+    )
+
+# def main ends here
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+            formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-c", "--config",
+            default = BASE_DIR / "config" / "eoaconvert.cfg",
+            help="Name of config file"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-l", "--log-file",
+            # default = Path("logs", SCRIPT_NAME).with_suffix(".log"),
+            help="logfile"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "--log-level",
+            default = "INFO",
+            help="log level: choose between DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "--root-dir",
+            default = Path.cwd() / "output",
+            help="internal html links on the page will use this location as a prefix"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-p", "--param",
+            action = 'append',
+            default = [],
+            help="internal html links on the page will use this location as a prefix"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-x", "--xsl",
+            default = "tei2html.xsl",
+            help="name of the xsl file in '{dir}/'".format(
+                dir = BASE_DIR / "tei2html"
+            )
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-f", "--filename",
+            required = True,
+            help="Name of main EOA-TEI file"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-o", "--output-file",
+            help="make saxon redirect the templates output here"
+    )
+
+    '''
+    TODO: support output directory
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "-o", "--output-dir",
+            default = ".",
+            help="where to dump all output files"
+    )
+    '''
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    CONFIG_FILE = args.config
+
+    print("The configfile is '%s'." % CONFIG_FILE)
+    log_file = args.log_file
+    if log_file is None:
+        log_file = (Path("logs") / args.xsl).with_suffix(".log")
+    print("The logfile is '%s'." % log_file)
+
+    CONFIG = load_config(
+            CONFIG_FILE,
+            args.log_level,
+            log_file,
+    )
+
+    check_executables()
+
+    print( "params: " + str(args.param) )
+
+    # run main:
+    main(
+            input_file = args.filename,
+            root_dir = args.root_dir,
+            xslt_file = args.xsl,
+            output_file = args.output_file,
+            params = args.param,
+    )
+
+# finis