[Docutils-users] Re: Generating plain, restricted HTML

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

David Goodger wrote:

> Sridhar Ratna wrote:
>
>> 1. How to generate HTML without html, head, body tags so that I can
>> ReST for some part of the website (eg. blog posts)
>
> Use the publish_parts convenience function:
> http://docutils.sf.net/docs/api/publisher.html

There's still no way of getting the HTML body from the parts (even
though using the parts['body'] might be sufficient for use in a blog).

>> 2. How to avoid the class="foo" attributes in generated HTML? I just
>> want the plain HTML without custom css attributes.  Say literals
>> should be generated using *just* <pre> but not <div
>> class="literal"><pre>...

You could use a regex, like ``s/ class="[^"]*"//g``.  But why not leave
the class attributes in the source?  They don't hurt, and together with
the Docutils stylesheet, it often looks (visually) better with the
styles.

> I have some ideas on how to make a more flexible writer, but
> little time to implement it.

Reminds me that I want to refactor the LaTeX writer to make it more
flexible.  :)

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