Re: [Docutils-develop] Stripping comments.

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

[Martin Blais]
> Hi
>
> I would like to add an option to rst2html.py to remove comment nodes
> so that commented text does not show up in the output HTML (right now
> REST comments are translated as HTML comments, so still visible by the
> user in the HTML!).
>
> Any opposition to that?

None from me.

> Any preference on how it should be implemented?

Yes, as a --strip-comments command-line option (& strip_comments
runtime setting), declared in docutils/frontend.py, and implemented
as a transform.  This feature isn't specific to rst2html.py, or to
the HTML Writer, or to the reST parser; it applies to Docutils as a
whole.

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