Re: [Docutils-develop] Where to store the reporter object (was: [Docutils-checkins] r3553 - in branches/blais_interrupt_render/docutils/docutils: core.py transforms/__init__.py)

[Martin B. <mar...@gm...>]

On 7/7/05, Felix Wiemann <Fel...@gm...> wrote:
> Martin Blais wrote:
>=20
> > The reporter is used at parsing, transform and writer stages.
> > Conceptually, it seems to me that the publisher should be responsible
> > to create and own the reporter and pass it along to the various stages
> > for perusal.
>=20
> When inserting system_messages, the system_message node class isn't
> instantiated directly but reporter.info/warning/error/severer() is
> called.  So separating reporter and document would not make things
> easier; you'd virtually have to pass a reporter every time you pass a

i'm wondering how much trouble that is (havent't had time to look yet).


> document.  And after all I think there is a 1:1 relation between
> reporter and document.  So, while it may not seem entirely clean,

the document tree relates to "the representation of the document".

the reporter relates to "the process of running" a parser / reader /
writer / transform.
for example, you could have two writer/transforms running on the same
shared document structure, with two separate reporter instances
associated with these two processes.