discount <markdown in C>

david parsons orc at pell.portland.or.us
Mon Mar 3 11:42:18 EST 2008


In article <20080303024707.GA638 at berkeley.edu>,
John MacFarlane <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>Nice job! You've got the speed record by a mile!

>

>I've played with your program a bit, and so far it does well on most of the

>edge cases that cause problems for Markdown.pl. But, like Markdown.pl,

>it generates invalid XHTML for this case:

>

>***strong** in emph*


I can't say I'm terribly surprised at this; the code that parses
emphasis blocking is fairly naive and needs to be changed from a
railway signalling generator into one that does proper blocking.


-david parsons


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