On Wednesday, 20 July 2011 06:39:43 UTC-4, Alastair Dent wrote:
>
> I need to be able to exclude specific rst files, depending on a built
> parameter.
>
> Is there an extension that will enable this?
>
Here's what I've done:
1. In my doc set do something like this:
.. only::
.. toctree::
:hidden:
internal/foo
Some text that refers to :doc:`foo <internal/foo>`.
2. On my sphinx command line do something like this:
sphinx-build -t internal input-dir output-dir
3. In my conf.py do something like this:
if tags.has("internal"):
exclude_patterns = [ '.build' ]
else:
exclude_patterns = [ '.build', '.internal' ]
This seems to work. However, whenever I do a build that doesn't include -t
internal, I get warnings from the sphinx processor that it can't find the
files internal/foo.
I /assume/ that this is because even though I'm blocking with .. only::,
the processor still does a first pass through where it builds all the
"content" stuff (i.e. tries to find all files/nodes), and /then/ decides
about what text to drop out.
So, really, all I'm doing here is relying on a system error to not include
the file in the toc tree (because it's in an excluded dir), and the
..only:: to block out any text that /refers/ to the file with a
user-visible link.
This doesn't strike me as optimal -- it would be a very useful feature to
support conditional inclusion/exclusion of stuff at the "node" level (i.e.
have conditional toc-trees, conditional file includes, and conditional
blocks that could wrap around (for example) section headings...
This might, however, depending on how sphinx goes about doing its
processing, be a non-trivial thing to do.
The right answer might very well be much more simply done with N different
conf files, N different "contents" files, and a cunningly structured source
tree to minimize duplication of source outside the conf and contents
files... 8(
--
Viktor Haag
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