From: <fel...@us...> - 2005-08-17 18:11:58
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Author: felixwiemann Date: 2005-08-17 20:11:50 +0200 (Wed, 17 Aug 2005) New Revision: 3821 Modified: trunk/docutils/FAQ.txt Log: added reference to link list in round-tripping FAQ entry Modified: trunk/docutils/FAQ.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/docutils/FAQ.txt 2005-08-17 18:06:34 UTC (rev 3820) +++ trunk/docutils/FAQ.txt 2005-08-17 18:11:50 UTC (rev 3821) @@ -361,22 +361,27 @@ Are there any tools for HTML/XML-to-reStructuredText? (Round-tripping) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -People have tossed the idea around, but little if any actual work has -ever been done. There's no reason why reStructuredText should not be -round-trippable to/from XML; any technicalities which prevent -round-tripping would be considered bugs. Whitespace would not be -identical, but paragraphs shouldn't suffer. The tricky parts would be -the smaller details, like links and IDs and other bookkeeping. +People have tossed the idea around, and some implementations of +reStructuredText-generating tools can be found in the `Docutils Link +List`_. +There's no reason why reStructuredText should not be round-trippable +to/from XML; any technicalities which prevent round-tripping would be +considered bugs. Whitespace would not be identical, but paragraphs +shouldn't suffer. The tricky parts would be the smaller details, like +links and IDs and other bookkeeping. + For HTML, true round-tripping may not be possible. Even adding lots of extra "class" attributes may not be enough. A "simple HTML" to RST filter is possible -- for some definition of "simple HTML" -- but HTML is used as dumb formatting so much that such a filter may not be -particularly useful. No general-purpose filter exists. An 80/20 -approach should work though: build a tool that does 80% of the work -automatically, leaving the other 20% for manual tweaks. +particularly useful. An 80/20 approach should work though: build a +tool that does 80% of the work automatically, leaving the other 20% +for manual tweaks. +.. _Docutils Link List: docs/user/links.html + Are there any Wikis that use reStructuredText syntax? ----------------------------------------------------- |