my scala markdown implementation

[Christoph Henkelmann]

Mathias, 


> there is another markdown implementation (besides knock-off) you can directly use from Scala (although it is currently implemented in Java):

> https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown/

Yup, found that one, too (after I was done ;)

The official Markdown page listed only PHP Markdown as another
implementation so I did not look for one that runs on the Java VM. But
you are of course right, you can easily use a JAVA lib in Scala, it even
works the other way around, only you can get some really ugly mangled
class names when using Scala classes in JAVA. 


> pegdown comes with quite a large number of test-cases assembled from various sources.

> You might want to take a look and reuse what you seem fit: https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown/tree/master/test-cases

Good idea. Mmmh - pegdown is apache 2.0 licensed, so I should be able to
mix those tests in.


> I would be interested in the performance of your Scala implementation 

I will try and create a project that depends on all three
implementations and runs the tests and benchmarks on all of them. Then
we would have a comparison of the JAVA VM based Markdown parsers.


> (which I assume is based on the parser combinators). 

That's correct. I bet knockoff is as well.


> Currently pegdown clocks in somewhere between RDiscount and Maruku in terms of performance.

> Could you give your implementation a spin?

I will definitely do that, might be a few days 'till I get around to
doing that, though. 

Cheers, 

Christoph