[Zope3-dev] Paths in ZCML

[Jeffrey P Shell]

I agree.  As I stated in one of my posts, it's not at all an example of 
how to really integrate reStructuredText into Zope 3, but rather it's 
just a simple formatted document type.

I'd really really like to see reST integrated in, but my current code 
is not a good starting point.  I'd like to see reST offered as a 
Utility at least, along with (perhaps) a generic "Formatted Text" 
service or set of utilities that would allow a FormattedPage content 
type that queried for all of the available formatting options - 
reStructuredText, StructuredText, plaintext, webtext (ala CMF 
Collector), HTML, etc.

At the very least, however, we'd want to come up with a Zope 3 Writer / 
Translator for reStructuredText that could:

- Generate content with or without the surrounding html/head/body tags.
- Return the `docinfo` part of a document as a data structure.
- Allow for setting which header level to start as when being used as 
content (like how most StructuredText documents for Zope start with the 
<h3> tag).

And perhaps a layered way of allowing configuration of reStructuredText 
settings.

Work for the three bullets outlined above could be based off of the HTC 
work done for reST:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/oliverr/ht/hthtml.py

I need to get something like that done for our internal Plone based 
project artifact system, but I don't have a target time-frame for it 
right now.

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 10:03  AM, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Stephan Richter wrote:
>> On Saturday 04 January 2003 13:37, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>>> Yesterday evening I threw together a quick reStructuredText document
>>> for Zope 3 (a1) to catch back up on the whole "Zope 3 experience".
>> Jeffrey,
>> since we need reST in the Zope 3 core for many things, I would 
>> suggest you check in your code into the CVS. Please rename your 
>> content object to ReSTPage, since this follows the naming convention 
>> better.
>
> Let's hold off for a bit on doing that, since Jeffrey's work doubles 
> as an example for contributed Zope 3 add-ons.  Right now, that's more 
> important than the functionality of the product.
>
> Shane
>