converting basic HTML to RML (Reportlab Markup Language)

Question

Is there any Python library or some sample code which demonstrates how to convert basic HTML into RML (Reportlab Markup Language www.reportlab.org)? I can think of using a regular HTML parser and adding some home grown code to generate the RML, but I guess there will be a lot of cases to handle in such a conversion.

Answer 1

You shouldn't have much trouble doing this. Aside from some differences in element names, it's pretty straightforward: just ignore any HTML elements that can't be easily converted/you don't care about converting to RML and do the rest. I'm sure the ReportLab folks would be glad if you contributed even a basic HTML to RML parser to the project.