Re: [Docutils-develop] reST.php?

[Dethe E. <de...@ma...>]

I'd love to see this.  Projects such as porting reST to PHP (or=20
whatever) are part
of why I was asking about rigorous specs in the form of EBNF syntax, to=20=

make
it more portable.

Also, if we parse directly to a DOM it makes reST more flexible and=20
easier
to port, since a DOM binding exists for most languages.  Many DOMs use
either SAX or Expat to build the DOM itself, my idea would be to replace
the low-level parser with reST.  I understand that David doesn't want=20
to give
up the simplicity of the node constructors for the verbosity of DOM=20
calls, but
node.py could be reimplemented as convenience functions to make the DOM
calls for you.

Building up a true XML DOM internally has several advantages.  More=20
potential
developers would be familiar with the API than are currently=20
comfortable with
the reST internals.  Writers could be written in XSLT without knowing=20
anything
about reST besides it's DTD.  And my *other* project of converting=20
existing HTML and DocBook documents into reST for maintenance would be=20=

that much easier!

Even further off-topic, the docs mention that reST has constructs which=20=

are missing from DocBook.  What are they?

--Dethe

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 03:17 AM, Axel Kollmorgen wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i'm a contributor to drupal ( http://drupal.org ), a php content
> management/discussion engine. me and some others there quite like rST,
> and we are currently discussing ( =
http://drupal.org/node.php?id=3D507#649
> ,
> http://drupal.org/node.php?title=3DStructured+Text+-+filter+enhancement =
)
> the use of (re)StructuredText for submitting (and maybe storing)=20
> content
> to the system. hence my questions:
>
> - does a php port of (re)StructuredText exists?
> - does a php port of something similar to (re)StructuredText exists
> (aside of http://www.keithdevens.com/software/ , StructuredText=20
> Markup)?
> - does any other language port of rST or similar exists?
> - as there is probably none of above: do you think it is possible to
> port rST to php? more specifically:
>   . is there any general experience in porting python to php?
>   . how much of / which parts of the docutils distribution would be
> required to port for basic functionality, i.e. for rendering html? how
> much for more functionality including xml-storage?
>   . is there any developer documentation about the code structure /
> class hierarchies / ... beside
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/#docutils-internals , the code and the
> devel-mailing list?
>
> looking forward for your feedback. tia.
>
> --=99
> ax
>
> "Jeder will alt werden, aber keiner will es sein." (Martin Held, dt.
> Schauspieler)
>
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