How do i manage anchor tags from html?

[flabowski]

Hi,
I am trying to move from an old word based documentation to an rst based documentation. First I tried word to rst, but i figured it is better to exported the word document as html and then convert html to rst. I dont know much about html, but I try my best to explain the problem.

The html file is large (27k+ lines) and there are 1000+ cross references like the one below:

<p class=Inputline><a name="w_startposition">StartPosition</a><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>real<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>real<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  
</span>real</p>

which is later referenced in the text like this:

<a href="#w_startposition"><b><span
style='mso-ansi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Courier'>StartPosition</span></b></a>

I use the following command to convert html to rst: pandoc -f html -t rst --section-divs --reference-links --standalone --wrap=none my_documentation.htm -o ../docs/source/tmp.rst

In tmp.rst the definition appears as

   StartPosition              real      real      real    

and the reference later in the text looks like

`StartPosition`_

On the bottom of the rst file I found a list of all reference and one line like this:

.. _StartPosition: #w_startposition

However, neither _StartPosition nor w_startposition appear in the rst file. When I use sphinx to build the html, the cross references dont work. Does anyone know what to do? Any help is appreciated! :)