[Doc-SIG] Re: [Docutils-develop] master plan for interpreted text?
David Goodger
goodger@python.org
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:03:00 -0500
Mark Nodine wrote:
> David Goodger wrote:
>> It's not. "type" has to be one of a pre-defined set of roles for which
>> there is parser and doctree support. Each role will have an associated
>> method or function that understands the role's semantics.
>
> I'm confused. There seems to be parser and doctree support, since it winds
> up in the pseudo-XML as::
>
> <interpreted position="prefix" role="role">
>
> Can't the role be any string consisting of [a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+ ?
You must be looking at old code. That was never intended to be the final
implementation, just a temporary placeholder.
The spec & code were revised about a month ago. See my Jan 9 post,
'Docutils update: "interpreted text" reimplemented'.
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