+[[!template id=plugin name=rst author="martin f. krafft"]]
+[[!tag type/format]]
+
This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".rst" to html.
It uses the [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html)
-markup syntax. You need to have the python-docutils module installed to use
-it.
+markup syntax. You need to have [[!cpan RPC::XML]], python and the
+python-docutils module installed to use it.
Note that this plugin does not interoperate very well with the rest of
ikiwiki. Limitations include:
-* reStructuredText does not allow raw html to be inserted into
- documents, but ikiwiki does so in many cases, including
- [[WikiLinks|WikiLink]] and many
- [[PreprocessorDirectives|PreprocessorDirective]].
-* It's slow; it forks a copy of python for each page. While there is a
- perl version of the reStructuredText processor, it is not being kept in
- sync with the standard version, so is not used.
+* There are issues with inserting raw html into documents, as ikiwiki
+ does with [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]] and many
+ [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]].
So while you may find this useful for importing old files into your wiki,
using this as your main markup language in ikiwiki isn't recommended at
this time.
-
-This plugin is included in ikiwiki, but not enabled by default.
-It was contributed by Sergio Talens-Oliag.
-
-[[tag type/format]]