Re: [Docutils-users] ISBN URL?

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

On 2017-12-22, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2017-05-11, 21:30 GMT, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this does not help in praxi, as

>>   Your browser would have to have a "resolver" installed for ISBN numbers
>>   that would find a URL for the resource. As far as I know, no browsers
>>   have taken a stab at implementing resolvers as called for by the RFC.
>>   –- Stephen Ostermiller Feb 24 at 8:57 

> So, to translate your post into English: there is nothing to 
> help you. Right?

To rephrase my answer:

  While Docutils already supports isbn URLs in the rst source (e.g. `The
  Four Loves <urn:isbn:0156329301>`__), this will most likely not work
  with current browsers which lack support for RFC 2187 and just return an
  error when told to go to "urn:isbn:0156329301".
  
Taking in account the current state of browser (non)support, I can imagine
a transform mapping ISBN URLs to a configurable HTML URL like ::

  'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=%s' % isbn_no
  
Patches welcome.

Günter