Re: [Docutils-users] Publish in reverse?

[Patrick K. O'B. <po...@or...>]

On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:14 pm, Aahz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> > Is it possible (within reason, not just theoretically) to reverse
> > the reST publish process such that you could input an xml file and
> > output a reST marked-up plaintext file?
>
> There is currently no mechanism to do this.  As David would say,
> contributions welcome.

And I suppose it might not make sense to do this using Docutils, as 
other tools (like XSL, perhaps) are designed for this kind of thing. I 
just think it would be cool to take existing material and turn it into 
reST plaintext. But I don't have the time or energy to do this myself.

-- 
Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech      http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien
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