Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] XHTML or HTML?

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Artem Yunusov <se...@sp...> wrote:
>>
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>> Eric, If you want HTML output you can use ElementTree 1.3 [1]
>>
>>     tree.write("out.html", method="html")
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>
> For the record, ET 1.3 is still in alpha and the docs specifically
> state that the HTML API is still in flux, so I doubt we will be adding
> that support to Python-Markdown for the time being. Perhaps in a
> future release. However, reviewing their code may be a good first step
> in developing a list of changes that need to be made through
> text-replacement in a postprocessor. While not the best solution, it
> is better than nothing.
>
>
It occurs to me that, with Fredrik Lundh's permission and a proper
license and copyright notice, we could maintain and distribute a
(perhaps slightly modified) copy of the _serialize_html function from
ET 1.3. Then use that instead of tostring if the user requests html
output. I haven't actually tried it, so I don't know how well it will
work as I suspect it expects the other changes in ET 1.3, but it may
be worth exploring.



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