Re: [Structuredtext-develop] Re: wanting to use restructuredtextin a zope product

[tav <ta...@es...>]

>>>>> DG == "David Goodger" <go...@us...> wrote:

    tav> could you elaborate on how you see it working without a
    tav> file-like object?

    DG> No, because I don't know yet! :-)

hehe, fair enough.

    tav> you seem pretty set on this point... can you at least accomodate
    tav> for a decode() method in the XHTMLTransformer class?

    DG> No, I can't see adding broken functionality to the project.
    DG> Why don't you just write a decode() function for yourself, and
    DG> run the processed string through it?

ah, that's what i do now, and i don't mind doing that. however, i feel that
there would be lots of users of restructuredtext, who would appreciate such
a method...

    tav> hmz. how could i go about disabling protocol recognition then?
    tav> i.e. conversion of http://foo.com into a url.

    DG> In the short-term, specific case you give, a backslash should
    DG> do it: \http://foo.com.

is there some method that i can alter that will permanently disable the
protocol recognition?

if you could enlighten me on the protocol disabling, i shalt be a very happy
mariner. =)

    DG> In the general case, I plan to make the parser modular
    DG> somehow (don't ask me how, yet), so clients can enable and
    DG> disable individual construct recognition.

very nice. if i someday manage to get my head round states.py, i'd love to
help out.

    DG> After the merge (reStructuredText + DPS ==> Docutils), this
    DG> weekend or next, I want to work on a PEP Reader component,
    DG> which will require such functionality.  I'll know more once
    DG> that's done.

good luck.

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best regards, tav
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