* Juhapekka Tolvanen <juht...@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.
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