Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[Jan Erik Moström]

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