Announcing Spirit Markdown

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Alastair Rankine [May 11 10 21:51 ]:

>    Here is another implementation of Markdown, this time in c++ using the

>    Boost Spirit library.

> 

>    Spirit Markdown is written in (hopefully!) idiomatic modern c++ and a

>    full suite of unit tests are provided. It is licensed under the Boost

>    Software License (OSI compliant).

> 

>    The purpose of writing this is:

> 

>    * for me to gain expertise in the use of Spirit, both through direct

>    experience and public review,

> 

>    * to provide a useful implemenation of Markdown, hopefully one

>    that performs favourably to other implementations, and

> 

>    * to provide a thorough "real world" example of Spirit, which

>    might prove useful to others

> 

>    The implementation is mature enough that I have dubbed it a

>    0.1.0 release. This means that there are some regressions against the

>    Perl implementation, but for the most part it should be usable. No

>    attempts have been made to optimise the parsers or the overall

>    operation.

> 

>    Boost Spirit is a parser generator for PEG-based grammars. My grammar

>    is based on John MacFarlane's PEG grammars for markdown, and to him I

>    am much indebted. There are however quite a few differences between

>    John's and mine and I'd be happy to discuss them.


Yes, I'd be interested (especially if some of the differences are
mistakes in peg-markdown, which I could correct).

John