no-doc-info-example

README.rst

Default behaviour with DocInfo transformation:

$ rst2pseudoxml nodocinfo_example.rst
<document ids="no-docinfo-example" names="no\ docinfo\ example" source="nodocinfo_example.rst" title="No DocInfo Example">
    <title>
        No DocInfo Example
    <docinfo>
        <author>
            mbukatov
        <date>
            2017-04-03
    <paragraph>
        This is just an example of document with doc info.

Custom rst tool with DocInfo transformation disabled:

$ ./nodocinfo_example.py nodocinfo_example.rst
<document ids="no-docinfo-example" names="no\ docinfo\ example" source="nodocinfo_example.rst" title="No DocInfo Example">
    <title>
        No DocInfo Example
    <field_list>
        <field>
            <field_name>
                author
            <field_body>
                <paragraph>
                    mbukatov
        <field>
            <field_name>
                date
            <field_body>
                <paragraph>
                    2017-04-03
    <paragraph>
        This is just an example of document with doc info.

nodocinfo_example.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-


from docutils.core import publish_cmdline
from docutils.readers import standalone
from docutils.transforms import frontmatter


class NoDocInfoReader(standalone.Reader):
    """
    NoDocInfoReader extends docutils standalone ReStructuredText reader
    to drop DocInfo transformation, everything else remains the same.
    """

    def get_transforms(self):
        transforms = standalone.Reader.get_transforms(self)
        transforms.remove(frontmatter.DocInfo)
        return transforms


if __name__ == '__main__':
    publish_cmdline(writer_name='pseudoxml', reader=NoDocInfoReader())

nodocinfo_example.rst

No DocInfo Example

Author:	mbukatov
Date:	2017-04-03

This is just an example of document with doc info.