Module
docutils.nodes

Docutils document tree element class library.

Classes in CamelCase are abstract base classes or auxiliary classes. The one exception is Text, for a text (PCDATA) node; uppercase is used to differentiate from element classes. Classes in lower_case_with_underscores are element classes, matching the XML element generic identifiers in the DTD.

The position of each node (the level at which it can occur) is significant and is represented by abstract base classes (Root, Structural, Body, Inline, etc.). Certain transformations will be easier because we can use isinstance(node, base_class) to determine the position of the node in the hierarchy.