Re: [Docutils-develop] Round-tripping ReST files

[Kent T. <kt...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Roberto Alsina
<ra...@ne...> wrote:
> Stefan Rank writes:
>
>> on 2009-04-08 17:22 Kent Tenney said the following:
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I am interested in the capability to read a rst file into
>>> a doctree, write it back out, char-for-char.
>>
>> Just in case you did not know:
>> I started working on a "lossless-rst-writer" quite some time ago, but got
>> distracted.

Can't relate to `getting distracted` :-]

The responses provide lots of great code to study, I'm pleased that
others are interested in round-tripping.

I'm enjoying spending time with docutils code, hopefully this effort
can lead to acceptable patches which will make writing out rst more fun.

Thanks,
Kent

>> You can find it as a branch in the repository (might need some merging of
>> trunk changes)::
>>
>>  http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/docutils/branches/lossless-rst-writer/
>>
>> It's not fully functional yet, but there is a test setup that might help.
>> As there is quite some information missing in the current doctree, my plan
>> was to get a decent lossy writer using the current doctree first and then
>> add a lossless-parser that annotates the doctree with the necessary info.
>> (of course adding this to the standard parser is fine with me :-) )
>
> I also had an attempt (that AFAIK pretty much works) at
> http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/static/rst2rst/rst2rst.py
>