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Earmark is a pure-Elixir Markdown converter. It is intended to be used as a library (just call Earmark.as_html), but can also be used as a command-line tool (run mix escript.build first). Output generation is pluggable.
Retired package: Deprecated - Earmark is no longer maintained. Migrate to a replacement, for example MDEx (https://hex.pm/packages/mdex).
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lib/earmark.ex
defmodule Earmark do
@moduledoc """
### API
* `Earmark.as_html`
{:ok, html_doc, []} = Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{:error, html_doc, error_messages} = Earmark.as_html(markdown)
* `Earmark.as_html!`
html_doc = Earmark.as_html!(markdown, options)
Any error messages are printed to _stderr_.
#### Options:
Options can be passed into `as_html` or `as_html!` according to the documentation.
html_doc = Earmark.as_html!(markdown)
html_doc = Earmark.as_html!(markdown, options)
Formats the error_messages returned by `as_html` and adds the filename to each.
Then prints them to stderr and just returns the html_doc
### Command line
$ mix escript.build
$ ./earmark file.md
Some options defined in the `Earmark.Options` struct can be specified as command line switches.
Use
$ ./earmark --help
to find out more, but here is a short example
$ ./earmark --smartypants false --code-class-prefix "a- b-" file.md
will call
Earmark.as_html!( ..., %Earmark.Options{smartypants: false, code_class_prefix: "a- b-"})
## Supports
Standard [Gruber markdown][gruber].
[gruber]: <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax>
## Extensions
### Github Flavored Markdown
GFM is supported by default, however as GFM is a moving target and all GFM extension do not make sense in a general context, Earmark does not support all of it, here is a list of what is supported:
* StrikeThrough
iex(1)> Earmark.as_html! ["~~hello~~"]
"<p><del>hello</del></p>\\n"
* Syntax Highlighting
The generated code blocks have a corresponding `class` attribute:
iex(2)> Earmark.as_html! ["```elixir", " [] |> Enum.into(%{})", "```"]
"<pre><code class=\\"elixir\\"> [] |> Enum.into(%{})</code></pre>\\n"
which can be customized with the `code_class_prefix` option
iex(3)> Earmark.as_html! ["```elixir", " [] |> Enum.into(%{})", "```"] , %Earmark.Options{code_class_prefix: "lang-"}
"<pre><code class=\\"elixir lang-elixir\\"> [] |> Enum.into(%{})</code></pre>\\n"
* Tables
Are supported as long as they are preceded by an empty line.
State | Abbrev | Capital
----: | :----: | -------
Texas | TX | Austin
Maine | ME | Augusta
Tables may have leading and trailing vertical bars on each line
| State | Abbrev | Capital |
| ----: | :----: | ------- |
| Texas | TX | Austin |
| Maine | ME | Augusta |
Tables need not have headers, in which case all column alignments
default to left.
| Texas | TX | Austin |
| Maine | ME | Augusta |
Currently we assume there are always spaces around interior vertical
bars. It isn't clear what the expectation is.
### Adding HTML attributes with the IAL extension
#### To block elements
HTML attributes can be added to any block-level element. We use
the Kramdown syntax: add the line `{:` _attrs_ `}` following the block.
_attrs_ can be one or more of:
* `.className`
* `#id`
* name=value, name="value", or name='value'
For example:
# Warning
{: .red}
Do not turn off the engine
if you are at altitude.
{: .boxed #warning spellcheck="true"}
#### To links or images
It is possible to add IAL attributes to generated links or images in the following
format.
iex(4)> markdown = "[link](url) {: .classy}"
...(4)> Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{ :ok, "<p><a href=\\"url\\" class=\\"classy\\">link</a></p>\\n", []}
For both cases, malformed attributes are ignored and warnings are issued.
iex(5)> [ "Some text", "{:hello}" ] |> Enum.join("\\n") |> Earmark.as_html()
{:error, "<p>Some text</p>\\n", [{:warning, 2,"Illegal attributes [\\"hello\\"] ignored in IAL"}]}
It is possible to escape the IAL in both forms if necessary
iex(6)> markdown = "[link](url)\\\\{: .classy}"
...(6)> Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{:ok, "<p><a href=\\"url\\">link</a>{: .classy}</p>\\n", []}
This of course is not necessary in code blocks or text lines
containing an IAL-like string, as in the following example
iex(7)> markdown = "hello {:world}"
...(7)> Earmark.as_html!(markdown)
"<p>hello {:world}</p>\\n"
## Limitations
* Block-level HTML is correctly handled only if each HTML
tag appears on its own line. So
<div>
<div>
hello
</div>
</div>
will work. However. the following won't
<div>
hello</div>
* John Gruber's tests contain an ambiguity when it comes to
lines that might be the start of a list inside paragraphs.
One test says that
This is the text
* of a paragraph
that I wrote
is a single paragraph. The "*" is not significant. However, another
test has
* A list item
* an another
and expects this to be a nested list. But, in reality, the second could just
be the continuation of a paragraph.
I've chosen always to use the second interpretation—a line that looks like
a list item will always be a list item.
* Rendering of block and inline elements.
Block or void HTML elements that are at the absolute beginning of a line end
the preceding paragraph.
Thusly
mypara
<hr>
Becomes
<p>mypara</p>
<hr>
While
mypara
<hr>
will be transformed into
<p>mypara
<hr></p>
## Integration
### Syntax Highlighting
All backquoted or fenced code blocks with a language string are rendered with the given
language as a _class_ attribute of the _code_ tag.
For example:
iex(8)> [
...(8)> "```elixir",
...(8)> " @tag :hello",
...(8)> "```"
...(8)> ] |> Earmark.as_html!()
"<pre><code class=\\"elixir\\"> @tag :hello</code></pre>\\n"
will be rendered as shown in the doctest above.
If you want to integrate with a syntax highlighter with different conventions you can add more classes by specifying prefixes that will be
put before the language string.
Prism.js for example needs a class `language-elixir`. In order to achieve that goal you can add `language-`
as a `code_class_prefix` to `Earmark.Options`.
In the following example we want more than one additional class, so we add more prefixes.
Earmark.as_html!(..., %Earmark.Options{code_class_prefix: "lang- language-"})
which is rendering
<pre><code class="elixir lang-elixir language-elixir">...
As for all other options `code_class_prefix` can be passed into the `earmark` executable as follows:
earmark --code-class-prefix "language- lang-" ...
## Timeouts
By default, that is if the `timeout` option is not set Earmark uses parallel mapping as implemented in `Earmark.pmap/2`,
which uses `Task.await` with its default timeout of 5000ms.
In rare cases that might not be enough.
By indicating a longer `timeout` option in milliseconds Earmark will use parallel mapping as implemented in `Earmark.pmap/3`,
which will pass `timeout` to `Task.await`.
In both cases one can override the mapper function with either the `mapper` option (used iff `timeout` is nil) or the
`mapper_with_timeout` function (used otherwise).
For the escript only the `timeout` command line argument can be used.
## Security
Please be aware that Markdown is not a secure format. It produces
HTML from Markdown and HTML. It is your job to sanitize and or
filter the output of `Earmark.as_html` if you cannot trust the input
and are to serve the produced HTML on the Web.
"""
alias Earmark.Error
alias Earmark.Options
import Earmark.Message, only: [emit_messages: 1, sort_messages: 1]
@doc """
Given a markdown document (as either a list of lines or
a string containing newlines), returns a tuple containing either
`{:ok, html_doc}`, or `{:error, html_doc, error_messages}`
Where `html_doc` is an HTML representation of the markdown document and
`error_messages` is a list of strings representing information concerning
the errors that occurred during parsing.
The options are a `%Earmark.Options{}` structure:
* `renderer`: ModuleName
The module used to render the final document. Defaults to
`Earmark.HtmlRenderer`
* `gfm`: boolean
True by default. Turns on the supported Github Flavored Markdown extensions
* `breaks`: boolean
Only applicable if `gfm` is enabled. Makes all line breaks
significant (so every line in the input is a new line in the
output.
* `smartypants`: boolean
Turns on smartypants processing, so quotes become curly, two
or three hyphens become en and em dashes, and so on. True by
default.
So, to format the document in `original` and disable smartypants,
you'd call
alias Earmark.Options
Earmark.as_html(original, %Options{smartypants: false})
"""
def as_html(lines, options \\ %Options{}) do
{context, html} = _as_html(lines, options)
case sort_messages(context) do
[] -> {:ok, html, []}
messages -> {:error, html, messages}
end
end
@doc """
A convenience method that *always* returns an HTML representation of the markdown document passed in.
In case of the presence of any error messages they are prinetd to stderr.
Otherwise it behaves exactly as `as_html`.
"""
def as_html!(lines, options \\ %Options{})
def as_html!(lines, options = %Options{}) do
{context, html} = _as_html(lines, options)
emit_messages(context)
html
end
defp _as_html(lines, options) do
{blocks, context} = parse(lines, options)
case blocks do
[] -> {context, ""}
_ -> options.renderer.render(blocks, context)
end
end
@doc """
Given a markdown document (as either a list of lines or
a string containing newlines), return a parse tree and
the context necessary to render the tree.
The options are a `%Earmark.Options{}` structure. See `as_html!`
for more details.
"""
def parse(lines, options \\ %Earmark.Options{})
def parse(lines, options = %Options{}) when is_list(lines) do
{ blocks, links, options1 } = Earmark.Parser.parse(lines, options, false)
context = %Earmark.Context{options: options1, links: links }
|> Earmark.Context.update_context()
if options.footnotes do
{ blocks, footnotes, options1 } = Earmark.Parser.handle_footnotes(blocks, context.options)
context =
put_in(context.footnotes, footnotes)
context =
put_in(context.options, options1)
{ blocks, context }
else
{ blocks, context }
end
end
def parse(lines, options) when is_binary(lines) do
lines
|> String.split(~r{\r\n?|\n})
|> parse(options)
end
@doc """
Accesses current hex version of the `Earmark` application. Convenience for
`iex` usage.
"""
def version() do
with {:ok, version} = :application.get_key(:earmark, :vsn), do: version
end
@default_timeout_in_ms 5000
@doc false
def pmap(collection, func, timeout \\ @default_timeout_in_ms) do
collection
|> Enum.map(fn item -> Task.async(fn -> func.(item) end) end)
|> Task.yield_many(timeout)
|> Enum.map(&join_pmap_results_or_raise(&1, timeout))
end
defp join_pmap_results_or_raise(yield_tuples, timeout)
defp join_pmap_results_or_raise({_task, {:ok, result}}, _timeout), do: result
defp join_pmap_results_or_raise({task, {:error, reason}}, _timeout), do:
raise Error, "#{inspect task} has died with reason #{inspect reason}"
defp join_pmap_results_or_raise({task, nil}, timeout), do:
raise Error, "#{inspect task} has not responded within the set timeout of #{timeout}ms, consider increasing it"
end
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0