Re: [Docutils-develop] Path for proper handling of :Authors:

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

[Aleksey Gurtovoy]
 > The attached tiny path implements the DocInfo transformation for the
 > ":Authors:" field as per
 > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/doctree.html#authors,

The idea is to turn this:

     :Authors:

         :Author: Aleksey Gurtovoy
         :Organization: MetaCommunications
         :Contact: agurtovoy -at- meta-comm.com

         :Author: David Goodger
         :Contact: your-email-address

into this:

     <docinfo>
         <authors>
             <author>
                 Aleksey Gurtovoy
             <organization>
                 MetaCommunications
             <contact>
                 agurtovoy -at- meta-comm.com
             <author>
                 David Goodger
             <contact>
                 your-email-address

The idea is sound.  But the patch is too tiny, I'm afraid; it's too
loose.  It needs some verification code, otherwise invalid doctrees
may result.  For example, try this input:

     :Authors:

         :Organization: this shouldn't come first, Author should
         :Author: should

         :Date: today
         :Status: these fields shouldn't occur at all

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