Re: [Docutils-users] rst2html for partial HTML generation [Was: 2015: reStructuredText implementations in other programming languages?]

[Roberto A. <ra...@ne...>]

On 26/06/15 10:43, Marcelo Huerta wrote:
> Roberto Alsina decía, en el mensaje "Re: [Docutils-users] rst2html for partial
> HTML generation [Was: Re: 2015: reStructuredText implementations in other
> programming languages?]" del 26/6/2015 9:34:16:
>
>> In Nikola I just extract the body element using lxml and put it in the
>> template where I want it.
> Maybe I'm being silly, but wasn't it possible to simply call publish_parts and
> use the returned parts['html_body'], as indicated in
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/api/publisher.html#publish-parts-details
> ? Tell me if I'm missing something.

No, that was perfectly fine. We do extract body because we support a 
bunch of "compilers" and not all of them play as nice.

Actual code for rst is like this:

return pub.writer.parts['docinfo'] + pub.writer.parts['fragment']

I don't quite recall the specifics of how it ended up like that ;-)