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

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 7:06 pm, Peter Funk wrote:
> 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
> 	    """

ReStructuredText takes some time to convert source text into HTML (sometimes 
several seconds for longish documents). I'd advise going for a more 
integrated approach that can compile the source text once.

If you're really keen to actually go with the html_with_references path - 
borrow the code from the ZReST.render() method and you'll have your text to 
HTML conversion.


   Richard