Re: [HT2HTML-devel] ht2html with docutils

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

Handzsuj,Thomas wrote:
> I have a suggestion for using ht2html together with docutils
> (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/)
> 
> The advantage is that I have to deal only with simple and readable ASCII
> files.

I agree.  There has been some interest in integrating the two recently.
Oliver Rutherfurd has written a preliminary Writer component for .ht output:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/oliverr/ht/

> The problem is that docutils creates normal html files. The information in
> the header of these files (e.g. title, charset) is lost if I use them as ht
> files.
> 
> To transfer this information I wrote a simple Parser based on SGMLParser. It
> collects information from the body and the get_.. functions take this
> information.

I think this is a roundabout way of doing the job.  Please take a look at
the link above.  It produces real .ht files, with the title in the RFC822
header.  The encoding could go there too (assuming it's ASCII-compatible).
I don't know how encoding-friendly ht2html is.

Ideally, I'd like to see a system which programmatically controls both
Docutils and ht2html, so that intermediate files don't have to be created.
I haven't looked into the ht2html code enough yet to know if this is
feasible.

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