# NAME

Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit

# VERSION

version 0.40

# SYNOPSIS

    use Markdent::Simple::Document;

    my $parser = Markdent::Simple::Document->new;
    my $html   = $parser->markdown_to_html(
        title    => 'My Document',
        markdown => $markdown,
    );

# DESCRIPTION

This distribution provides a toolkit for parsing Markdown (and Markdown variants, aka dialects). Unlike the other Markdown Perl tools, this module can be used for more than just generating HTML. The core parser generates events (like XML's SAX), making it easy to analyze a Markdown document in any number of ways.

If you're only interested in converting Markdown to HTML, you can use the Markdent::Simple::Document class to do this, although you can just as well use better battle-tested tools like Text::Markdown.

See Markdent::Manual for more details on how Markdent works and how you can use it.

# QUICK MARKDOWN TO HTML CONVERSION

If you just want to do some quick Markdown to HTML conversion use either the Markdent::Simple::Document or Markdent::Simple::Fragment class.

This distribution also ships with a command line tool called markdent-html. See that tool's documentation for details on how to use it.

# PROCESSING PIPELINES

If you want to create a Markdown processing pipeline, start by looking at the various handler classes:

- Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::Document
- Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::Fragment
- Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::Multiplexer
- Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::HTMLFilter
- Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::CaptureEvents

You will probably also want to write your own handler class as part of the pipeline. This will need to implement the Markdent::Role::Handler role.

To do that you'll need to review the many `Markdent::Event::*` classes. Each event represents something seen by the parse, such as a piece of the start or end of a piece of block (paragraph, header) or span markup (strong, link) or some text.

The start of a pipeline will generally be either the Markdent::Parser or Markdent::CapturedEvents class.

# CUSTOM DIALECTS

You may also want to implement a custom dialect to add some additional features to the parser. Your parser classes will need to consume either the Markdent::Role::Dialect::BlockParser or the Markdent::Role::Dialect::SpanParser role. The best way to understand how a dialect is implemented is to look at one of the existing dialect classes:

- Markdent::Dialect::GitHub::BlockParser
- Markdent::Dialect::GitHub::SpanParser
- Markdent::Dialect::Theory::BlockParser
- Markdent::Dialect::Theory::SpanParser

You'll also need to dig into the core Markdent::Parser::BlockParser and Markdent::Parser::SpanParser classes in order to see how these dialects interact with the core parser.

# DONATIONS

If you'd like to thank me for the work I've done on this module, please consider making a "donation" to me via PayPal. I spend a lot of free time creating free software, and would appreciate any support you'd care to offer.

Please note that I am not suggesting that you must do this in order for me to continue working on this particular software. I will continue to do so, inasmuch as I have in the past, for as long as it interests me.

Similarly, a donation made in this way will probably not make me work on this software much more, unless I get so many donations that I can consider working on free software full time, which seems unlikely at best.

To donate, log into PayPal and send money to autarch@urth.org or use the button on this page: http://www.urth.org/~autarch/fs-donation.html

# BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to `bug-markdent@rt.cpan.org`, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Bugs may be submitted at https://github.com/houseabsolute/Markdent/issues.

I am also usually active on IRC as 'autarch' on `irc://irc.perl.org`.

# SOURCE

The source code repository for Markdent can be found at https://github.com/houseabsolute/Markdent.

# DONATIONS

If you'd like to thank me for the work I've done on this module, please consider making a "donation" to me via PayPal. I spend a lot of free time creating free software, and would appreciate any support you'd care to offer.

Please note that I am not suggesting that you must do this in order for me to continue working on this particular software. I will continue to do so, inasmuch as I have in the past, for as long as it interests me.

Similarly, a donation made in this way will probably not make me work on this software much more, unless I get so many donations that I can consider working on free software full time (let's all have a chuckle at that together).

To donate, log into PayPal and send money to autarch@urth.org, or use the button at https://www.urth.org/fs-donation.html.

# AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky autarch@urth.org

# CONTRIBUTORS

- Andrew Speer andrew.speer@isolutions.com.au
- Denis Ibaev dionys@gmail.com
- Jason McIntosh jmac@appleseed-sc.com
- Jonas Smedegaard dr@jones.dk
- Konrad Bucheli konrad.bucheli@gmx.ch
- Polina Shubina 925043@mai.com
- Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org
- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) racke@linuxia.de
- Tom Hukins tom@eborcom.com

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the `LICENSE` file included with this distribution.