Re: [Docutils-users] Using attributes in the "class" directive

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

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:41 AM,
<doc...@ay...> wrote:
> According to the spec, the "class" attribute accepts class names and also
> attribute values as directive arguments [1].
>
> [1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#class

You misunderstand the spec. The class names *become* the "classes"
attribute of its contents or the immediately-following element.

> The examples for the "class" attribute only include class names but not
> attribute values.

This reST::

    .. class:: special

    This is a "special" paragraph.

becomes this doctree fragment (XML)::

    <paragraph classes="special">This is a "special" paragraph.</paragraph>

> Is it really possible to assign attributes to a class name
> by using the "class" directive?

No, that doesn't make sense.

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