publish_parts and table of contents?

Hello docutils users,

Is there a way to get the equivalent to “.. contents::” from publish_parts?

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/0.4/docs/api/publisher.html

If not, is there any way to get the table of contents programmatically?

If not, is there any reason / issue with it being a feature?

The practical use is a developer pulling out parts the HTML output would
like control over the table of contents output.

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