Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

Jan Erik Moström lists at mostrom.pp.se
Thu Dec 28 18:15:25 EST 2006


Reply to Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> 06-12-28 16:38:


>In fact, one of the reasons why custom attributes aren't

>already supported in PHP Markdown Extra 1.1 is because it's

>hard to figure out a way to do it without changing every

>regular expression of PHP Markdown and creating two completely

>different code bases to maintain. My plan is to do this by

>adding the necessary hooks in PHP Markdown's regular

>expressions, but the point is that it'd be much simpler to do

>if the added Extra features were merged into the regular PHP

>Markdown parser.


A question: am I correct when I guess that all implementations
use regexp to parse the text or is there some implementation
that do "real" parsing?

jem


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