[Zope] How to convert structured text into plain text

[vsbabu@vsbabu.org]

Wouldn't <dtml-var xxx> be enough? Off course it'll still have STXisms like * or **, link specs etc.

Otherwise, what I can think of is to write an external method that takes in HTML and returns plain text.
To this pass the rendered STX.

something like this ->

from htmllib import HTMLParser
from formatter import AbstractFormatter, AbstractWriter
parser = HTMLParser(AbstractFormatter(AbstractWriter()))
parser.feed(stx_in_html)
parser.close()

Well, this prints out the text - need to modify it to capture it and return it as a string

-vsb

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:44:56PM +0000, Nuno Maltez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that <dtml-var xxx fmt="structured-text"> converts structured text into
> HTML, and I know how to call this from a python script/external method.
> 
> Now, is there a method somewhere in Zope's classes that return a plain
> text version of the stx string? With all the special characters and sequences
> stripped off.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Nuno
> 
> 
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