Re: [Docutils-users] maintaining original line numbers from rST file in target xml file

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On 5/9/06, Brendan Neutra <bn...@gm...> wrote:
> exposing the internal attribute "line" and "source" seems like it could
> work.  I do include a header document in the main doc.  By looking at the
> xml output with the expose-internal-attribute line option, I've deduced:
>
> 1. The line number attribute does not correspond directly to the original
> document but, rather, to the doc that would result from inserting the
> include docs as well. I'll need to work around that somehow.

This is a known bug. Fixes to Docutils itself would be welcome.

> 2. The line number represents the close tag for a given element. e.g. The
> line number attribute for a very long definition list would correspond to
> the line at the very end of the list.

No, the line number should correspond to the start of the element. If
it doesn't, that's a bug (please provide example input that
demonstrates the bug). Perhaps (1) is throwing you off.

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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>