Is there already a markdown to XML parser implemented in Mathematica? I wrote a one for my pelican rewrite, but realized I should have asked here first. Mine is almost certainly faulty in a few major ways (I just don't know them yet) and would much rather use some one else's if it exists.
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$\begingroup$ I do not think Mathematica has a ton of support for Markdown in any capacity. Maybe someone knows something I do not though. $\endgroup$– ktmCommented Aug 28, 2017 at 2:21
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$\begingroup$ @user6014 I'm pretty sure there's no native implementation for anything. It would be nice, but also something of a blow given the amount of time I've sunk implementing this kind of thing. I was more wondering if the community had some gold-standard markdown parser. $\endgroup$– b3m2a1Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 2:48
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$\begingroup$ Most of the discussions I have seen on MSE are about the other direction: from Mathematica to Markdown. You might find some useful ideas in this answer of "CSS Selectors for Symbolic XML". $\endgroup$– Anton AntonovCommented Aug 28, 2017 at 13:21
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$\begingroup$ @AntonAntonov the issue is less doing it myself as I've already done that. I more wanted to know if someone else has done it better. But that answer on CSS selectors is very useful. I will need to remember that one. $\endgroup$– b3m2a1Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 15:20
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$\begingroup$ If you really need this (for using, not self-education), I would write a wrapper for some established library. Or why not just use the XHTML produced by the original application: daringfireball.net/projects/markdown $\endgroup$– masterxiloCommented Sep 4, 2017 at 16:17
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To get the ball rolling, here's my incomplete parser.
And here's a minimal markdown sample.
This is what my markdown parser makes of it, used like so:
CloudExport[
MarkdownToXML[
Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b3m2a1/mathematica-BTools/\
master/Resources/Templates/PacletServer/content/pages/About.md",
"Text"
],
"StripMetaInformation" -> False
],
"HTML",
"user:b3m2a1.testing/mdtest.html",
Permissions -> "Public"
]
CloudObject["https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/b3m2a1.testing/mdtest.html"]
(Note that it will strip that meta-information header block by default, hence the "StripMetaInformation"->False)
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$\begingroup$ Does not seem to work anymore. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 9, 2020 at 14:26
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The package "Markdown2WL" attempts that, but unfortunately it is fairly incomplete. Also, see the corresponding Community post.
(In general I like the idea of a Markdown-to-Mathematica converter written in Mathematica.)
answered Sep 29, 2022 at 17:16