NAME

Markdent::Parser - A markdown parser

VERSION

version 0.38

SYNOPSIS

my $handler = Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream->new( ... );

my $parser = Markdent::Parser->new(
    dialect => ...,
    handler => $handler,
);

$parser->parse( markdown => $markdown );

DESCRIPTION

This class provides the primary interface for creating a parser. It ties a block and span parser together with a handler.

By default, it will parse the standard Markdown dialect, but you can provide alternate block or span parser classes.

METHODS

This class provides the following methods:

Markdent::Parser->new(...)

This method creates a new parser. It accepts the following parameters:

• dialects => $name or [ $name1, $name2 ]

  You can use this to apply dialect roles to the standard parser class.

  If a dialect name does not contain a namespace separator (::), the constructor looks for roles named Markdent::Dialect::${dialect}::BlockParser and Markdent::Dialect::${dialect}::SpanParser.

  If a dialect name does contain a namespace separator, it is used a prefix - $dialect::BlockParser and $dialect::SpanParser.

  If any relevant roles are found, they will be used by the parser.

  It is okay if a given dialect only provides a block or span parser, but not both.

• block_parser_class => $class

  This defaults to Markdent::Parser::BlockParser, but can be any class which implements the Markdent::Role::BlockParser role.

• span_parser_class => $class

  This defaults to Markdent::Parser::SpanParser, but can be any class which implements the Markdent::Role::SpanParser role.

• handler => $handler

  This can be any object which implements the Markdent::Role::Handler role. It is required.

$parser->parse( markdown => $markdown )

This method parses the given document. The parsing will cause events to be fired which will be passed to the parser's handler.

ROLES

This class does the Markdent::Role::EventsAsMethods and Markdent::Role::Handler roles.

BUGS

See Markdent for bug reporting details.

Bugs may be submitted at https://github.com/houseabsolute/Markdent/issues.

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SOURCE

The source code repository for Markdent can be found at https://github.com/houseabsolute/Markdent.

AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.