Source code for pydata_sphinx_theme.toctree

"""Methods to build the toctree used in the html pages."""

import posixpath

from collections.abc import Iterator
from dataclasses import dataclass
from functools import cache
from itertools import count
from textwrap import dedent
from urllib.parse import urlparse

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from docutils import nodes
from docutils.nodes import Node
from sphinx.addnodes import toctree as TocTreeNodeClass
from sphinx.application import Sphinx
from sphinx.environment.adapters.toctree import TocTree
from sphinx.locale import _

from .utils import traverse_or_findall


[docs] def add_inline_math(node: Node) -> str: """Render a node with HTML tags that activate MathJax processing. This is meant for use with rendering section titles with math in them, because math outputs are ignored by pydata-sphinx-theme's header. related to the behaviour of a normal math node from: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/ext/mathjax.py#L28 """ return ( '<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">' rf"\({node.astext()}\)" "</span>" )
[docs] def _get_ancestor_pagename(app: Sphinx, pagename: str, startdepth: int) -> str: """ Get the name of `pagename`'s ancestor that is rooted `startdepth` levels below the global root. """ toctree = TocTree(app.env) from sphinx.environment.adapters.toctree import _get_toctree_ancestors ancestors = [*_get_toctree_ancestors(app.env.toctree_includes, pagename)] try: out = ancestors[-startdepth] except IndexError: # eg for index.rst, but also special pages such as genindex, py-modindex, search # those pages don't have a "current" element in the toctree, so we can # directly return None instead of using the default sphinx # toctree.get_toctree_for(pagename, app.builder, collapse, **kwargs) out = None return out, toctree
[docs] @dataclass class LinkInfo: """Dataclass to generate toctree data.""" is_current: bool href: str title: str is_external: bool # `is_current` is true for the whole section the reader is inside, which is what # drives the visual highlight. `is_current_page` is true only on the section's own # landing page, which is the narrower condition `aria-current="page"` describes. is_current_page: bool = False
[docs] def add_toctree_functions( app: Sphinx, pagename: str, templatename: str, context, doctree ) -> None: """Add functions so Jinja templates can add toctree objects.""" def suppress_sidebar_toctree(startdepth: int = 1, **kwargs): """Check if there's a sidebar TocTree that needs to be rendered. Parameters: startdepth : The level of the TocTree at which to start. 0 includes the entire TocTree for the site; 1 (default) gets the TocTree for the current top-level section. kwargs : passed to the Sphinx `toctree` template function. """ ancestorname, toctree_obj = _get_ancestor_pagename( app=app, pagename=pagename, startdepth=startdepth ) if ancestorname is None: return True # suppress if kwargs.get("includehidden", False): # if ancestor is found and `includehidden=True` we're guaranteed there's a # TocTree to be shown, so don't suppress return False # we've found an ancestor page, but `includehidden=False` so we can't be sure if # there's a TocTree fragment that should be shown on this page; unfortunately we # must resolve the whole TOC subtree to find out toctree = get_nonroot_toctree( app, pagename, ancestorname, toctree_obj, **kwargs ) return toctree is None @cache def get_or_create_id_generator(base_id: str) -> Iterator[str]: for n in count(start=1): if n == 1: yield base_id else: yield f"{base_id}-{n}" def unique_html_id(base_id: str): """ Create an id that is unique from other ids created by this function at build time. The function works by sequentially returning "<base_id>", "<base_id>-2", "<base_id>-3", etc. each time it is called. """ return next(get_or_create_id_generator(base_id)) @cache def _generate_nav_info() -> list[LinkInfo]: """Generate informations necessary to generate nav. Instead of messing with html later, having this as a util function should make it slightly easier to generate different html snippet for sidebar or navbar. """ # Find the active header navigation item so we decide whether to highlight # Will be empty if there is no active page (root_doc, or genindex etc) from sphinx.environment.adapters.toctree import _get_toctree_ancestors # NOTE: `env.toctree_includes` is a dict mapping pagenames to any (possibly # hidden) TocTree directives on that page (i.e., the "child" pages nested # under `pagename`). header_pages = [*_get_toctree_ancestors(app.env.toctree_includes, pagename)] if header_pages: # The final list item will be the top-most ancestor active_header_page = header_pages[-1] else: active_header_page = None # NOTE: `env.tocs` is a dict mapping pagenames to hierarchical bullet-lists # ("nodetrees" in Sphinx parlance) of in-page headings (including `toctree::` # directives). Thus the `tocs` of `root_doc` yields the top-level pages that sit # just below the root of our site root_toc = app.env.tocs[app.config.root_doc] links_data = [] # Iterate through each node in the root document toc. # Grab the toctree pages and find the relative link + title. for toc in traverse_or_findall(root_toc, TocTreeNodeClass): # TODO: ↑↑↑ use `root_toc.findall(TocTreeNodeClass)` ↑↑↑ # once docutils min version >=0.18.1 for title, page in toc.attributes["entries"]: # if the page is using "self" use the correct link page = toc.attributes["parent"] if page == "self" else page # If this is the active ancestor page, add a class so we highlight it # sanitize page title for use in the html output if needed if title is None: title = "" if page in app.env.titles: for node in app.env.titles[page].children: if isinstance(node, nodes.math): title += add_inline_math(node) else: title += node.astext() elif page == "genindex": title = _("Index") elif page == "modindex": title = _("Python Module Index") elif page == "search": title = _("Search") else: raise RuntimeError( f"Could not find title for toctree entry: {page!r}" ) # set up the status of the link and the path # if the path is relative then we use the context for the path # resolution and the internal class. # If it's an absolute one then we use the external class and # the complete url. is_absolute = bool(urlparse(page).netloc) link_href = ( page if is_absolute else context["pathto"]( "py-modindex" if page == "modindex" else page ) ) links_data.append( LinkInfo( is_current=(page == active_header_page), is_current_page=(page == pagename), href=link_href, title=title, is_external=is_absolute, ) ) # Add external links defined in configuration as sibling list items for external_link in context["theme_external_links"]: links_data.append( LinkInfo( is_current=False, href=external_link["url"], title=external_link["name"], is_external=True, ) ) return links_data @cache def _generate_header_nav_before_dropdown( n_links_before_dropdown, ) -> tuple[str, list[str]]: """Return html for navbar and dropdown. Given the number of links before the dropdown, return the html for the navbar, as well as the list of links to put in a dropdown. Returns: - HTML str for the navbar - list of HTML str for the dropdown """ try: n_links_before_dropdown = int(n_links_before_dropdown) except Exception: raise ValueError( f"n_links_before_dropdown is not an int: {n_links_before_dropdown}" ) links_data = _generate_nav_info() links_html = [] links_dropdown = [] boilerplate = dedent( """ <li class="{nav_item} {active}"> <a class="{nav_link} nav-{ext_int}" href="{href}"{aria_current}> {title} </a> </li> """ ) nav_item = "nav-item" nav_link = "nav-link" dropdown_item = "dropdown-item" if len(links_data) <= n_links_before_dropdown + 1: # max items without a dropdown is n + 1, # the cutoff counting the dropdown itself. # avoids having a dropdown with exactly one item dropdown_cutoff = n_links_before_dropdown + 1 else: dropdown_cutoff = n_links_before_dropdown for link in links_data[:dropdown_cutoff]: links_html.append( boilerplate.format( active="current active" if link.is_current else "", aria_current=' aria-current="page"' if link.is_current_page else "", nav_link=nav_link, nav_item=nav_item, ext_int="external" if link.is_external else "internal", href=link.href, title=link.title, ) ) for link in links_data[dropdown_cutoff:]: links_dropdown.append( boilerplate.format( active="current active" if link.is_current else "", aria_current=' aria-current="page"' if link.is_current_page else "", nav_link=nav_link + " " + dropdown_item, nav_item="", ext_int="external" if link.is_external else "internal", href=link.href, title=link.title, ) ) # The first links will always be visible return "\n".join(links_html), links_dropdown def generate_header_nav_html( n_links_before_dropdown: int = 5, dropdown_text: str = "More" ) -> str: """Generate top-level links that are meant for the header navigation. We use this function instead of the TocTree-based one used for the sidebar because this one is much faster for generating the links and we don't need the complexity of the full Sphinx TocTree. This includes two kinds of links: - Links to pages described listed in the root_doc TocTrees - External links defined in theme configuration Additionally it will create a dropdown list for several links after a cutoff. Parameters: n_links_before_dropdown:The number of links to show before nesting the remaining links in a Dropdown element. dropdown_text:Text of the dropdown element button. """ out, links_dropdown = _generate_header_nav_before_dropdown( n_links_before_dropdown ) if links_dropdown: dropdown_id = unique_html_id("pst-nav-more-links") links_dropdown_html = "\n".join(links_dropdown) out += f""" <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <button class="btn dropdown-toggle nav-item" type="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="{dropdown_id}"> {_(dropdown_text)} </button> <ul id="{dropdown_id}" class="dropdown-menu"> {links_dropdown_html} </ul> </li> """ return out # Cache this function because it is expensive to run, and because Sphinx # somehow runs this twice in some circumstances in unpredictable ways. @cache def generate_toctree_html( kind: str, startdepth: int = 1, show_nav_level: int = 1, **kwargs ) -> BeautifulSoup | str: """Return the navigation link structure in HTML. This is similar to Sphinx's own default TocTree generation, but it is modified to generate TocTrees for *second*-level pages and below (not supported by default in Sphinx). This is used for our sidebar, which starts at the second-level page. It also modifies the generated TocTree slightly for Bootstrap classes and structure (via BeautifulSoup). Arguments are passed to the Sphinx `_get_local_toctree` function (`context["toctree"]` below). ref: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/templating.html#toctree Parameters: kind : "sidebar" or "raw". Whether to generate HTML meant for sidebar navigation ("sidebar") or to return the raw BeautifulSoup object ("raw"). startdepth : The level of the toctree at which to start. By default, for the navbar uses the normal toctree (`startdepth=0`), and for the sidebar starts from the second level (`startdepth=1`). show_nav_level : The level of the navigation bar to toggle as visible on page load. By default, this level is 1, and only top-level pages are shown, with drop-boxes to reveal children. Increasing `show_nav_level` will show child levels as well. kwargs : passed to the Sphinx `_get_local_toctree` template function. Returns: HTML string (if kind == "sidebar") OR BeautifulSoup object (if kind == "raw") """ show_nav_level = int(show_nav_level) ancestorname = toctree_obj = None if startdepth > 0: # find relevant ancestor page; some pages (search, genindex) won't have one ancestorname, toctree_obj = _get_ancestor_pagename( app=app, pagename=pagename, startdepth=startdepth ) if ancestorname is None: raise RuntimeError( "Template requested to generate a TocTree fragment but no suitable " "ancestor found to act as root node. Please report this to theme " "developers." ) # Resolving and soup-ifying the sidebar toctree below is expensive on # large sites, so where possible we serve it from a cache instead # (see _sidebar_cache_key for when and _patch_cached_sidebar for how) cache_key = _sidebar_cache_key( kind, ancestorname, app.builder.get_target_uri(pagename), show_nav_level, kwargs, ) if cache_key is not None: cached_html = _patch_cached_sidebar( app, cache_key, pagename, show_nav_level ) if cached_html is not None: return cached_html if startdepth == 0: html_toctree = context["toctree"](**kwargs) else: # select the "active" subset of the navigation tree for the sidebar toctree_element = get_nonroot_toctree( app, pagename, ancestorname, toctree_obj, **kwargs ) html_toctree = app.builder.render_partial(toctree_element)["fragment"] soup = BeautifulSoup(html_toctree, "html.parser") # pair "current" with "active" since that's what we use w/ bootstrap for li in soup("li", {"class": "current"}): li["class"].append("active") # Sphinx puts the "current" class on every ancestor <li> but only on the # anchor of the page actually being rendered, so this marks that one page # and not the section it sits under. for anchor in soup("a", {"class": "current"}): anchor["aria-current"] = "page" # Remove sidebar links to sub-headers on the page for li in soup.select("li"): # Remove if li.find("a"): href = li.find("a")["href"] if "#" in href and href != "#": li.decompose() if kind == "sidebar": # Add bootstrap classes for first `ul` items for ul in soup("ul", recursive=False): ul.attrs["class"] = [*ul.attrs.get("class", []), "nav", "bd-sidenav"] # Add collapse boxes for parts/captions. # Wraps the TOC part in an extra <ul> to behave like chapters with toggles # show_nav_level: 0 means make parts collapsible. if show_nav_level == 0: partcaptions = soup.find_all("p", attrs={"class": "caption"}) if len(partcaptions): new_soup = BeautifulSoup( "<ul class='list-caption'></ul>", "html.parser" ) for caption in partcaptions: # Assume that the next <ul> element is the TOC list # for this part for sibling in caption.next_siblings: if sibling.name == "ul": toclist = sibling break li = soup.new_tag("li", attrs={"class": "toctree-l0"}) li.extend([caption, toclist]) new_soup.ul.append(li) soup = new_soup # Add icons and labels for collapsible nested sections add_collapse_checkboxes(soup) # Open the sidebar navigation to the proper depth for ii in range(show_nav_level): for details in soup.select(f"li.toctree-l{ii} > details"): details["open"] = "open" if cache_key is not None and soup.find("a", href="#") is not None: # only cache a soup containing this page's own entry (rendered with # href="#") so that a later cache hit can find and demote that entry _sidebar_cache(app)[cache_key] = [pagename, soup] return soup @cache def generate_toc_html(kind: str = "html") -> BeautifulSoup: """Return the within-page TOC links in HTML.""" if "toc" not in context: return "" soup = BeautifulSoup(context["toc"], "html.parser") # Add toc-hN + visible classes def add_header_level_recursive(ul, level): if ul is None: return if level <= (context["theme_show_toc_level"] + 1): ul["class"] = [*ul.get("class", []), "pst-show_toc_level"] for li in ul("li", recursive=False): li["class"] = [*li.get("class", []), f"toc-h{level}"] add_header_level_recursive(li.find("ul", recursive=False), level + 1) add_header_level_recursive(soup.find("ul"), 1) # Add in CSS classes for bootstrap for ul in soup("ul"): ul["class"] = [*ul.get("class", []), "nav", "section-nav", "flex-column"] for li in soup("li"): li["class"] = [*li.get("class", []), "nav-item", "toc-entry"] if li.find("a"): a = li.find("a") a["class"] = [*a.get("class", []), "nav-link"] # If we only have one h1 header, assume it's a title h1_headers = soup.select(".toc-h1") if len(h1_headers) == 1: title = h1_headers[0] # If we have no sub-headers of a title then we won't have a TOC if not title.select(".toc-h2"): out = "" else: out = title.find("ul") # Else treat the h1 headers as sections else: out = soup # Return the toctree object if kind == "html": return out else: return soup def navbar_align_class() -> list[str]: """Return the class that aligns the navbar based on config.""" align = context.get("theme_navbar_align", "content") align_options = { "content": ("col-lg-3", "col-lg-9", "me-auto"), "left": ("", "", "me-auto"), "right": ("", "", "ms-auto"), } if align not in align_options: raise ValueError( "Theme option navbar_align must be one of" f"{align_options.keys()}, got: {align}" ) return align_options[align] context["unique_html_id"] = unique_html_id context["generate_header_nav_html"] = generate_header_nav_html context["suppress_sidebar_toctree"] = suppress_sidebar_toctree context["generate_toctree_html"] = generate_toctree_html context["generate_toc_html"] = generate_toc_html context["navbar_align_class"] = navbar_align_class
[docs] def _sidebar_cache_key( kind: str, ancestorname: str | None, page_uri: str, show_nav_level: int, kwargs: dict, ) -> tuple | None: """Return the sidebar toctree cache key for this page, or None if uncacheable. When `collapse=False` (i.e., theme option `collapse_navigation=False`, which is our default; note that Sphinx's `_get_local_toctree` defaults to `collapse=True`), the resolved toctree has the same structure for every page under the same ancestor -- only the "current" markers (`current`/`active` classes and open `<details>`) and the relative link targets differ. So the finished soup can be shared by all pages written to the same output directory (same relative link targets) below the same ancestor, provided the "current" markers are moved to each page's own toctree entry (_patch_cached_sidebar). `page_uri` is this page's output URI (`builder.get_target_uri()`), not its docname: builders whose page URIs are directories rather than files (e.g. "dirhtml") give every page its own output directory, so no two pages can share a sidebar and nothing is cached for them. """ if kind != "sidebar" or ancestorname is None or kwargs.get("collapse", True): return None if not page_uri or page_uri.endswith("/"): return None return ( ancestorname, posixpath.dirname(page_uri), show_nav_level, tuple(sorted(kwargs.items())), )
[docs] def _sidebar_cache(app: Sphinx) -> dict: """Return the per-build sidebar toctree cache, stored on the Sphinx app.""" if not hasattr(app, "_pst_sidebar_toctree_cache"): app._pst_sidebar_toctree_cache = {} return app._pst_sidebar_toctree_cache
[docs] def _patch_cached_sidebar( app: Sphinx, cache_key: tuple, pagename: str, show_nav_level: int ) -> str | None: """Return this page's sidebar HTML by patching a cached sibling page's soup. Return None (and leave the cache unmodified) if no soup is cached under `cache_key` yet, or if the cached soup contains no entry for this page (e.g., it was pruned by `maxdepth`) -- the caller then builds the sidebar the slow way. """ cached = _sidebar_cache(app).get(cache_key) if cached is None: return None cached_pagename, cached_soup = cached patched = _move_current_markers( cached_soup, old_href=app.builder.get_relative_uri(pagename, cached_pagename), new_href=app.builder.get_relative_uri(cached_pagename, pagename), show_nav_level=show_nav_level, ) if not patched: return None cached[0] = pagename # the "current" markers are now on this page's entry return str(cached_soup)
[docs] def _move_current_markers( soup: BeautifulSoup, *, old_href: str, new_href: str, show_nav_level: int ) -> bool: """Move the "current page" markers in a rendered sidebar toctree. ``soup`` was rendered for another page in the same directory, whose entry (as seen from the page at ``new_href``) is at ``old_href``. Relocate the ``current``/``active`` classes and the ``open`` state of ``<details>`` disclosure widgets from that page's entry chain to the entry for the page at ``new_href``. Return ``False`` (leaving ``soup`` unmodified) if no entry for ``new_href`` exists. """ if old_href == new_href: return True # same page, nothing to move new_anchors = soup.find_all("a", href=new_href) if not new_anchors: return False # Demote the previous page's entry; its self-link is rendered as href="#" for anchor in soup.find_all("a", href="#"): anchor["href"] = old_href anchor["class"] = [cls for cls in anchor.get("class", []) if cls != "current"] # `aria-current` has to move with the class it mirrors. A cached sidebar # that kept it would announce the wrong page as the current one, which is # worse than not marking a current page at all. del anchor["aria-current"] _set_current_chain(anchor, current=False, show_nav_level=show_nav_level) # Promote this page's entry for anchor in new_anchors: anchor["href"] = "#" anchor["class"] = ["current", *anchor.get("class", [])] anchor["aria-current"] = "page" _set_current_chain(anchor, current=True, show_nav_level=show_nav_level) return True
[docs] def _set_current_chain(anchor, *, current: bool, show_nav_level: int) -> None: """Add or remove current/active/open markers on an entry's ancestor chain.""" for parent in anchor.parents: if parent.name == "li": classes = parent.get("class", []) # `li.toctree-l0` is a wrapper the theme synthesizes around a part's # caption when `show_nav_level=0`; fresh builds never mark it current is_part = "toctree-l0" in classes if not is_part: classes = [cls for cls in classes if cls not in ("current", "active")] if current: # match the class order of a freshly built toctree, where # Sphinx adds "current" right after "toctree-l*" classes[1:1] = ["current", "active"] parent["class"] = classes # Every <details> disclosure widget added by `add_collapse_checkboxes` # is a direct child of an <li> on the chain -- including the current # entry's own <li> (when the current page has child pages), whose # <details> is a *sibling* of `anchor` rather than an ancestor. details = parent.find("details", recursive=False) if details is not None: if current: # fresh builds give an open part a bare `open` attribute details["open"] = None if is_part else "open" elif not any( f"toctree-l{level}" in classes for level in range(show_nav_level) ): # (keep <details> open where mandated by ``show_nav_level``) details.attrs.pop("open", None) elif parent.name == "ul": classes = [cls for cls in parent.get("class", []) if cls != "current"] # `ul.list-caption` is the theme-synthesized wrapper around all parts # (`show_nav_level=0`); fresh builds never mark it current if current and "list-caption" not in classes: classes.insert(0, "current") if classes: parent["class"] = classes else: parent.attrs.pop("class", None)
[docs] def add_collapse_checkboxes(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> None: """Add checkboxes to collapse children in a toctree.""" # based on https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo for element in soup.find_all("li", recursive=True): # We check all "li" elements, to add a "current-page" to the correct li. classes = element.get("class", []) # expanding the parent part explicitly, if present if "current" in classes: parentli = element.find_parent("li", class_="toctree-l0") if parentli: parentli.find("details")["open"] = None # Nothing more to do, unless this has "children" if not element.find("ul"): continue # Add a class to indicate that this has children. element["class"] = [*classes, "has-children"] if soup.new_tag is None: continue # For table of contents nodes that have subtrees, we modify the HTML so # that the subtree can be expanded or collapsed in the browser. # # The HTML markup tree at the parent node starts with this structure: # # - li.has-children # - a.reference or p.caption # - ul # # Note the first child of li.has-children is p.caption only if this node # is a section heading. (This only happens when show_nav_level is set to # 0.) # # Now we modify the tree structure in one of two ways. # # (1) If the node holds a section heading, the HTML tree will be # modified like so: # # - li.has-children # - details # - summary # - p.caption # - .toctree-toggle # - ul # # (2) Otherwise, if the node holds a link to a page in the docs: # # - li.has-children # - a.reference # - details # - summary # - .toctree-toggle # - ul # # Why the difference? In the first case, the TOC section heading is not # a link, but in the second case it is. So in the first case it makes # sense to put the (non-link) text inside the summary tag so that the # user can click either the text or the .toctree-toggle chevron icon to # expand/collapse the TOC subtree. But in the second case, putting the # link in the summary tag would make it unclear whether clicking on the # link should expand the subtree or take you to the link. # Create <details> and put the entire subtree into it details = soup.new_tag("details") details.extend(element.contents) element.append(details) # Hoist the link to the top if there is one toc_link = element.select_one("details > a.reference") if toc_link: element.insert(0, toc_link) # Create <summary> with chevron icon summary = soup.new_tag("summary") span = soup.new_tag( "span", attrs={ "class": "toctree-toggle", # This element and the chevron it contains are purely decorative; # the actual expand/collapse functionality is delegated to the # <summary> tag "role": "presentation", }, ) span.append(soup.new_tag("i", attrs={"class": "fa-solid fa-chevron-down"})) summary.append(span) # Prepend section heading (if there is one) to <summary> collapsible_section_heading = element.select_one("details > p.caption") if collapsible_section_heading: # Put heading inside summary so that the heading text (and chevron) are both # clickable summary.insert(0, collapsible_section_heading) # Prepend <summary> to <details> details.insert(0, summary) # If this TOC node has a "current" class, be expanded by default # (by opening the details/summary disclosure widget) if "current" in classes: details["open"] = "open"
[docs] def get_nonroot_toctree( app: Sphinx, pagename: str, ancestorname: str, toctree, **kwargs ): """Get the partial TocTree (rooted at `ancestorname`) that dominates `pagename`. Parameters: app : Sphinx app. pagename : Name of the current page (as Sphinx knows it; i.e., its relative path from the documentation root). ancestorname : Name of a page that dominates `pagename` and that will serve as the root of the TocTree fragment. toctree : A Sphinx TocTree object. Since this is always needed when finding the ancestorname (see _get_ancestor_pagename), it's more efficient to pass it here to re-use it. kwargs : passed to the Sphinx `toctree` template function. This is similar to `context["toctree"](**kwargs)` (AKA `toctree(**kwargs)` within a Jinja template), or `TocTree.get_toctree_for()`, which always uses the "root" doctree (i.e., `doctree = self.env.get_doctree(self.env.config.root_doc)`). """ kwargs.setdefault("collapse", True) if "maxdepth" not in kwargs or not kwargs["maxdepth"]: kwargs["maxdepth"] = 0 kwargs["maxdepth"] = int(kwargs["maxdepth"]) # starting from ancestor page, recursively parse `toctree::` elements if ancestorname not in toctree.env.tocs: return None ancestor_doctree = toctree.env.tocs[ancestorname].deepcopy() toctrees = [] # for each `toctree::` directive in the ancestor page... for toctree_node in traverse_or_findall(ancestor_doctree, TocTreeNodeClass): # TODO: ↑↑↑↑↑↑ use `ancestor_doctree.findall(TocTreeNodeClass)` ↑↑↑↑↑↑ # once docutils min version >=0.18.1 # ... resolve that `toctree::` (recursively get children, prune, collapse, etc) resolved_toctree = toctree.resolve( docname=pagename, builder=app.builder, toctree=toctree_node, **kwargs, ) # ... keep the non-empty ones if resolved_toctree: toctrees.append(resolved_toctree) if not toctrees: return None # ... and merge them into a single entity result = toctrees[0] for resolved_toctree in toctrees[1:]: result.extend(resolved_toctree.children) return result