Re: [Docutils-users] Section titles, with or without multiple sections in document

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

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Ben Finney <ben...@be...> wrote:
> David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Ben Finney <ben...@be...> wrote:
>> > What I want is:
>> >
>> > =====
>> > $ rst2pseudoxml < foo.txt
>> > <document source="<stdin>">
>> >     <section ids="first-section" names="first\ section">
>> >         <title>
>> >             First Section
>> >         <paragraph>
>> >             Lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet.
>> > =====
>> >
>> > In fact, I'm accessing this document programmatically using a custom
>> > Writer. How can I get the parsing result I want?
>>
>> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/config.html#doctitle-xform
>
> Thanks. Okay, that is a setting on the Publisher (and, according to the
> docs, normally set by configuration file or command-line).
>
> For the task at hand (if it matters, I am transforming a changelog
> document to structured release data), I want all the settings to be
> internally managed.
>
> So far I've only needed to make a custom Writer class and a custom
> Translator class. Unit tests for those are already cumbersome; I would
> really prefer not to need creating yet another custom class.
>
> In order to modify that setting (‘doctitle_xform’), do I need to make a
> custom Publisher class too? Or can I have the Writer somehow override
> it?

Just pass the configuration setting to the standard Publisher or
convenience function:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/api/publisher.html#configuration

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