Problems with incorporating markdown into a project

[Lou Quillio]

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Isn't this too complex, though?

Back when TextPattern was in alpha, I remember asking Dean why he
was storing two representations of each post:  a raw version
(marked-up with Textile) and a transformed XHTML version.  The
reason was performance, that is, the raw input would be stored for
future editing, be transformed upon save, and the transformed data
presented at display time.

But he agreed that wasn't perfectly elegant (ya gotta love the guy's
instincts), and had a solution planned:  de-Textile, a parser that
would convert XHTML blobs to Textile pseudomarkup.  That way, only
an XHTML version would be stored.

I thought it was nuts.  I still think it's nuts.  Don't think
de-Textile ever happened.

Why not store the data as Markdown, transform it at display time,
and be done?  It's not expensive.  That's what I have Drupal doing
(at TextDrive) and it performs just fine.

With all this transforming and de-transforming, something's bound to
go wrong.  I just don't see the advantage.  If there were one, it'd
be performance, and that seems easier to address by storing two
representations.

LQ


Ryan Booker wrote:
| I'm using Markdown in my personal CMS project.  Locally on my Mac (OSX
| Tiger) I have html2text, Markdown and SmartyPants both running without
| any problems.
|
| When I make a post I run it through Markdown.pl then SmartyPants.pl
| then save it in the db.
|
| When I edit a post I run it through html2text.py (by aaron swartz) so
| that the html is stripped and replaced by markdown syntax.
|
| This works perfectly on the mac.
|
| As soon as I upload this to my Textdrive account, it no longer works.
| Markdown refuses to correctly convert referenced links to html.
| Though all other markdown syntax continues to work.  The referenced
| links are left as markdown syntax rather than being converted to html.
|  Inline links work fine.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Cheers,
| Ryan
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