[Python-modules-team] Bug#611233: rst2xml can not create valid DocBook XML-code for Publican

[Jakub Wilk]

* Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv at iki.fi>, 2011-10-01, 17:43:
>Why on earth they waste their time coding and maintaining some utility, 
>that outputs XML-code written in neverheard-DTD? And that tool called 
>rst2pseudoxml must be even more ridiculous waste of time. What good is 
>it?

First of all, telling volunteers how they should or should not spend 
their free time is impolite (and ineffective). But it's not like 
upstream developers of Docutils spent months on developing these output 
formats. They are both just simple dumps of data structures that 
Docutils uses internally.

rst2xml comes handy when you need to convert rST to another (not 
necessarily XML-based) format that is not directly supported by 
Docutils, but you don't want to dig into Python sources. In the past, 
before the advent of rst2man, we (Debian packagers) did use it to 
generate manual pages.

rst2pseudoxml is useful for debugging purposes, as its output is more 
human-readable than XML.

>Are those developers of python-docutils living inside a bottle or 
>barrel?

For your information, insults won't help you persuade them to implement 
your pet feature.

-- 
Jakub Wilk