rst2xml (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
rst2xml – convert reST documents to XML
SYNOPSIS
rst2xml [options] [<source> [<destination>]]
DESCRIPTION
Generates Docutils-native XML from standalone reStructuredText sources. Reads from <source> (default is stdin) and writes to <destination> (default is stdout). See <http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/config.html> for the full reference.
OPTIONS
General Docutils Options
–title=TITLE- Specify the document title as metadata.
–generator,-g- Include a "Generated by Docutils" credit and link.
–no-generator- Do not include a generator credit.
–date,-d- Include the date at the end of the document (UTC).
–time,-t- Include the time & date (UTC).
–no-datestamp- Do not include a datestamp of any kind.
–source-link,-s- Include a "View document source" link.
–source-url=<URL>- Use <URL> for a source link; implies –source-link.
–no-source-link- Do not include a "View document source" link.
–toc-entry-backlinks- Link from section headers to TOC entries. (default)
–toc-top-backlinks- Link from section headers to the top of the TOC.
–no-toc-backlinks- Disable backlinks to the table of contents.
–footnote-backlinks- Link from footnotes/citations to references. (default)
–no-footnote-backlinks- Disable backlinks from footnotes and citations.
–section-numbering- Enable section numbering by Docutils. (default)
–no-section-numbering- Disable section numbering by Docutils.
–strip-comments- Remove comment elements from the document tree.
–leave-comments- Leave comment elements in the document tree. (default)
–strip-elements-with-class=<class>- Remove all elements with classes="<class>" from the document tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution. (Multiple-use option.)
–strip-class=<class>- Remove all classes="<class>" attributes from elements in the document tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution. (Multiple-use option.)
–report=<level>,-r<level>- Report system messages at or higher than <level>: "info" or "1", "warning"/"2" (default), "error"/"3", "severe"/"4", "none"/"5"
–verbose,-v- Report all system messages. (Same as "–report=1".)
–quiet,-q- Report no system messages. (Same as "–report=5".)
–halt=<level>- Halt execution at system messages at or above <level>. Levels as in –report. Default: 4 (severe).
–strict- Halt at the slightest problem. Same as "–halt=info".
–exit-status=<level>- Enable a non-zero exit status for non-halting system messages at or above <level>. Default: 5 (disabled).
–debug- Enable debug-level system messages and diagnostics.
–no-debug- Disable debug output. (default)
–warnings=<file>- Send the output of system messages to <file>.
–traceback- Enable Python tracebacks when Docutils is halted.
–no-traceback- Disable Python tracebacks. (default)
–input-encoding=<name[:handler]>,-i<name[:handler]>- Specify the encoding and optionally the error handler of input text. Default: <locale-dependent>:strict.
–input-encoding-error-handler=INPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER- Specify the error handler for undecodable characters. Choices: "strict" (default), "ignore", and "replace".
–output-encoding=<name[:handler]>,-o<name[:handler]>- Specify the text encoding and optionally the error handler for output. Default: UTF-8:strict.
–output-encoding-error-handler=OUTPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER- Specify error handler for unencodable output characters; "strict" (default), "ignore", "replace", "xmlcharrefreplace", "backslashreplace".
–error-encoding=<name[:handler]>,-e<name[:handler]>- Specify text encoding and error handler for error output. Default text encoding: system encoding. Default error handler: backslashreplace.
–error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER- Specify the error handler for unencodable characters in error output. Default: backslashreplace.
–language=<name>,-l<name>- Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag). Default: en.
–record-dependencies=<file>- Write output file dependencies to <file>.
–config=<file>- Read configuration settings from <file>, if it exists.
–version,-V- Show this program’s version number and exit.
–help,-h- Show this help message and exit.
reStructuredText Parser Options
–pep-references- Recognize and link to standalone PEP references (like "PEP 258").
–pep-base-url=<URL>- Base URL for PEP references (default "http://www.python.org/dev/peps/").
–pep-file-url-template=<URL>- Template for PEP file part of URL. (default "pep-%04d")
–rfc-references- Recognize and link to standalone RFC references (like "RFC 822").
–rfc-base-url=<URL>- Base URL for RFC references (default "http://tools.ietf.org/html/").
–tab-width=<width>- Set number of spaces for tab expansion (default 8).
–trim-footnote-reference-space- Remove spaces before footnote references.
–leave-footnote-reference-space- Leave spaces before footnote references.
–no-file-insertion- Disable directives that insert the contents of external file ("include" & "raw"); replaced with a "warning" system message.
–file-insertion-enabled- Enable directives that insert the contents of external file ("include" & "raw"). Enabled by default.
–no-raw- Disable the "raw" directives; replaced with a "warning" system message.
–raw-enabled- Enable the "raw" directive. Enabled by default.
–syntax-highlight=<format>- Token name set for parsing code with Pygments: one of "long", "short", or "none (no parsing)". Default is "long".
–smart-quotes=<yes/no/alt>- Change straight quotation marks to typographic form: one of "yes", "no", "alt[ernative]" (default "no").
–smartquotes-locales=<language:quotes[,language:quotes,…]>- Characters to use as "smart quotes" for <language>.
–word-level-inline-markup- Inline markup recognized at word boundaries only (adjacent to punctuation or whitespace). Force character-level inline markup recognition with "" (backslash + space). Default.
–character-level-inline-markup- Inline markup recognized anywhere, regardless of surrounding characters. Backslash-escapes must be used to avoid unwanted markup recognition. Useful for East Asian languages. Experimental.
Standalone Reader
–no-doc-title- Disable the promotion of a lone top-level section title to document title (and subsequent section title to document subtitle promotion; enabled by default).
–no-doc-info- Disable the bibliographic field list transform (enabled by default).
–section-subtitles- Activate the promotion of lone subsection titles to section subtitles (disabled by default).
–no-section-subtitles- Deactivate the promotion of lone subsection titles.
Docutils XML Writer Options
–newlines- Generate XML with newlines before and after tags.
–indents- Generate XML with indents and newlines.
–no-xml-declaration- Omit the XML declaration. Use with caution.
–no-doctype- Omit the DOCTYPE declaration.