Re: [Docutils-users] rest checking and source path

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

Sylvain Thénault wrote:
 > MyReporter is actually an adapter to another reporting class. ...

Sounds like making the Reporter object/class into parameters is the
way to go.  I'll add it to the to-do list (patches welcome of
course!).

 > Note I only want to check the syntax, I don't want to actually
 > transform the file. Is there any convenience method doing so ?

We could add a "disable_transforms" setting.  You could make a dummy
Writer subclass that does nothing when its .write() method is called.

 > If you've another way to do so using a more "public" api, please
 > tell me.

The main API is insufficient for your needs at present.  I have no
problem with it growing parameters though.

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