New Markdown parser in Perl: Markdent

[Dave Rolsky]

I've recently released a new Markdown parser in Perl, called Markdent. 
This differs from the existing Perl tools (and most other language tools 
I've seen) in that it's an event-driven parser.

This lets you analyze the document in much more interesting ways, as well 
as cache parse results (but not HTML generation), and do other fun stuff.

The module is also designed so that it's relatively easy(ish) to create 
Markdown dialects. Right now it ships with a dialect that supports David 
Wheeler's table syntax proposal at 
http://www.justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html. The 
actual implementation is slightly different from David's proposal, but 
mostly with his blessing ;)

The module is on CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Markdent/

I also wrote a bit about why this module can be useful in a blog post at 
http://blog.urth.org/2009/11/whats-the-point-of-markdent.html


-dave

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