John L. Clark

Günter Milde commented on the latest version of the patch on the mailing list. They suggested combining the comma- and colon-separated list syntax that Docutils has historically used to allow specifying this configuration within configuration files, in addition to on the command line. They also requested that I add documentation about this parameter to 'docs/user/config.txt'. The latest version of the patch includes these changes.

I suggest a name change (update -> map(ing) ) for the setting and in the prototype docstring, too. Thanks for helping me making sure all of these are consistent. I also appreciate your original suggestion; I was struggling with what wording would convey the meaning most clearly. What is your proposed syntax for command line use? I propose a command line such as: rst2html --map-extension rst html --map-extension jpg png input-filename.rst For local references and images, this would map the "rst" extention...

Günter Milde provided some feedback on my initial patch: https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/message/37091425/. I have attached a new patch that focuses only on the file extension mapping functionality, leaves off the changes to buildhtml (which I will include in a separate ticket), and uses unit tests for testing.

Hyperlink extension rewriting