Re: [Docutils-users] "Graceful degradation" for ``raw`` directive

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2011-01-29, Chris Yuen wrote:

> Suppose I want to show a form in a document. For the HTML version, I have
> prepared an "interactive" form that the user can actually submit e.g.:

> .. raw:: html
>     :file: my-form.html

> For other writers (ODT, PDF, etc.), I have prepared a "fallback" version of
> the same form using standard reST. Is there a way I can achieve this kind of
> "graceful degradation" in reST?

Have a look at the config option:

`strip_elements_with_classes`
    List of "classes" attribute values; matching elements to be
    removed from the document tree.

    .. WARNING:: Potentially dangerous; use with caution.

    Default: disabled (None).  Option: ``--strip-element-with-class``.


E.g. in a config file you could write::

[html writer]

strip-elements-with-class: no-html

and in the document:


.. raw:: html
    :file: my-form.html

.. class:: no-html

My form
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<fallback fromular>

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