1 These scripts and Makefile fragment are used to convert the Python
2 documentation in LaTeX format to SGML or XML. Though I originally
3 thought that the XML was unlikely to be used, tool support for XML
4 is increasing quickly enough that it may well be the final format.
5 (It is the default output format when using the makefiles included
8 This material is preliminary and incomplete. The XML omnibus package
9 developed by the Python XML-SIG is required; specifically, the version
10 available in the public CVS repository. See
11 http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/ for more information on the
14 To convert all documents to XML:
17 make -f tools/sgmlconv/Makefile sgml
19 To convert one document to XML:
22 make -f ../tools/sgmlconv/make.rules TOOLSDIR=../tools
24 To generate SGML instead, use:
27 make -f ../tools/sgmlconv/make.rules TOOLSDIR=../tools sgml
29 Note that building the second target format is fast because both
30 conversions use the same intermediate format (an ESIS event stream).
31 This is true regardless of whether you build SGML or XML first.
33 Please send comments and bug reports to python-docs@python.org.
40 Reads in a conversion specification written in XML
41 (conversion.xml), reads a LaTeX document fragment, and interprets
42 the markup according to the specification. The output is a stream
43 of ESIS events like those created by the nsgmls SGML parser, but
44 is *not* guaranteed to represent a single tree! This is done to
45 allow conversion per entity rather than per document. Since many
46 of the LaTeX files for the Python documentation contain two
47 sections on closely related modules, it is important to allow both
48 of the resulting <section> elements to exist in the same output
49 stream. Additionally, since comments are not supported in ESIS,
50 comments are converted to <COMMENT> elements, which might exist at
51 the same level as the top-level content elements.
54 This is the really painful part of the conversion. Well, it's the
55 second really painful part, but more of the pain is specific to
56 the structure of the Python documentation and desired output
57 rather than to the parsing of LaTeX markup.
59 This script loads the ESIS data created by latex2esis.py into a
60 DOM document *fragment* (remember, the latex2esis.py output may
61 not be well-formed). Once loaded, it walks over the tree many
62 times looking for a variety of possible specific
63 micro-conversions. Most of the code is not in any way "general".
64 After processing the fragment, a new ESIS data stream is written
65 out. Like the input, it may not represent a well-formed
68 The output of docfixer.py is what gets saved in <filename>.esis.
71 Reads an ESIS stream and convert to SGML or XML. This also
72 converts <COMMENT> elements to real comments. This works quickly
73 because there's not much to actually do.