[Zope] Re: [Docutils-develop] ReStructuredText now in Zope

[Peter Funk]

Hi,

Richard Jones wrote:
> I've thrown together a Zope interface to the docutils project's 
> ReStructuredText format. 
[...]

Exciting!  I couldn't refuse the temptation to try this out at once.
And it works:  The add menu of the ZMI displays the new object type
'ReStructuredText Document' and the HTML rendering happens as
expected.

> You'll need to install docutils too :)

Obviously.  I've downloaded a docutils-snapshot.tgz on August 13th.
On my RPM-based Linux system the default Python is 2.2, but Zope 2.5.1 
still recommends Python 2.1.  So I did
	python2.1 setup.py install	
in the directory, where I untarred docutils-snapshot.tgz, which created and
populated the directory /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/docutils.  
Works like a charme.

What I would like to do next is integrating ReST with CMFWiki.
This is a wiki clone product for Zope used within the context of
the Zope CMF, the Zope content management framework.  This Product
contains a module called 'CMFWikiPage.py', which currently calls the
html_with_references() function exported by the Zope StructuredText module
to render classic structured text.

The string returned from this function is than further processed to
setup the interwiki links and such.

I will try to come up with a patch to CMFWikiPage which will than use ReST 
as an alternative format (and as the default for new Wiki pages).

To aid this I would find it very useful, if either the ZReST package or
docutils could export a wrapper function implementing a very simple API
similar to this found in Zope/StructuredText/StructuredText:
	def html_with_references(text, level=1, header=1)
	    """
	    Given a string 'text' containing structured text markup 
	    returns this 'text' rendered as HTML
	    """

If such a simple API or something similar is already present either in
ZReST or in the docutils package itself, please apologize my ignorance
and give me a hint where to look for this.

Regards and many thanks, Peter
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