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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Retired package: Deprecated - Earmark is no longer maintained.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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defmodule Earmark do
@type ast_meta :: map()
@type ast_tag :: binary()
@type ast_attribute_name :: binary()
@type ast_attribute_value :: binary()
@type ast_attribute :: {ast_attribute_name(), ast_attribute_value()}
@type ast_attributes :: list(ast_attribute())
@type ast_tuple :: {ast_tag(), ast_attributes(), ast(), ast_meta()}
@type ast_node :: binary() | ast_tuple()
@type ast :: list(ast_node())
@moduledoc """
### API
Earmark now exposes a well-defined and stable Abstract Syntax Tree
#### Earmark.as_ast
The function is described below and the other two API functions `as_html` and `as_html!` are now based upon
the structure of the result of `as_ast`.
{:ok, ast, []} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown)
{:ok, ast, deprecation_messages} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown)
{:error, ast, error_messages} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown)
#### Earmark.as_html
{:ok, html_doc, []} = Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{:ok, html_doc, deprecation_messages} = Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{:error, html_doc, error_messages} = Earmark.as_html(markdown)
#### Earmark.as_html!
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
#### Options
Options can be passed into `as_ast/2`as well as `as_html/2` or `as_html!/2` according to the documentation.
{status, html_doc, errors} = Earmark.as_html(markdown, options)
html_doc = Earmark.as_html!(markdown, options)
{status, ast, errors} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown, options)
### 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:
#### Strike Through
iex(1)> Earmark.as_html! ["~~hello~~"]
"<p>\\n <del>\\nhello </del>\\n</p>\\n"
#### 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(2)> [
...(2)> "```elixir",
...(2)> " @tag :hello",
...(2)> "```"
...(2)> ] |> 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-" ...
#### 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 unless
there are exterior bars.
However in order to be more GFM compatible the `gfm_tables: true` option
can be used to interpret only interior vertical bars as a table if a seperation
line is given, therefor
Language|Rating
--------|------
Elixir | awesome
is a table (iff `gfm_tables: true`) while
Language|Rating
Elixir | awesome
never is.
#### HTML Blocks
HTML is not parsed recursively or detected in all conditons right now, though GFM compliance
is a goal.
But for now the following holds:
A HTML Block defined by a tag starting a line and the same tag starting a different line is parsed
as one HTML AST node, marked with %{verbatim: true}
E.g.
iex(3)> lines = [ "<div><span>", "some</span><text>", "</div>more text" ]
...(3)> Earmark.as_ast(lines)
{:ok, [{"div", [], ["<span>", "some</span><text>"], %{verbatim: true}}, "more text"], []}
And a line starting with an opening tag and ending with the corresponding closing tag is parsed in similar
fashion
iex(4)> Earmark.as_ast(["<span class=\\"superspan\\">spaniel</span>"])
{:ok, [{"span", [{"class", "superspan"}], ["spaniel"], %{verbatim: true}}], []}
What is HTML?
We differ from strict GFM by allowing **all** tags not only HTML5 tagsn this holds for oneliners....
iex(5)> {:ok, ast, []} = Earmark.as_ast(["<stupid />", "<not>better</not>"])
...(5)> ast
[
{"stupid", [], [], %{verbatim: true}},
{"not", [], ["better"], %{verbatim: true}}]
and for multiline blocks
iex(6)> {:ok, ast, []} = Earmark.as_ast([ "<hello>", "world", "</hello>"])
...(6)> ast
[{"hello", [], ["world"], %{verbatim: true}}]
#### HTML Comments
Are recoginized if they start a line (after ws and are parsed until the next `-->` is found
all text after the next '-->' is ignored
E.g.
iex(7)> Earmark.as_ast(" <!-- Comment\\ncomment line\\ncomment --> text -->\\nafter")
{:ok, [{:comment, [], [" Comment", "comment line", "comment "], %{comment: true}}, {"p", [], ["after"], %{}}], []}
### 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(8)> markdown = "[link](url) {: .classy}"
...(8)> Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{ :ok, "<p>\\n<a class=\\"classy\\" href=\\"url\\">link</a></p>\\n", []}
For both cases, malformed attributes are ignored and warnings are issued.
iex(9)> [ "Some text", "{:hello}" ] |> Enum.join("\\n") |> Earmark.as_html()
{:error, "<p>\\nSome text</p>\\n", [{:warning, 2,"Illegal attributes [\\"hello\\"] ignored in IAL"}]}
It is possible to escape the IAL in both forms if necessary
iex(10)> markdown = "[link](url)\\\\{: .classy}"
...(10)> Earmark.as_html(markdown)
{:ok, "<p>\\n<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(11)> markdown = "hello {:world}"
...(11)> Earmark.as_html!(markdown)
"<p>\\nhello {: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>
## 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 if and only if `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: 2, 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, error_messages}`, or `{:error, html_doc, error_messages}`
Where `html_doc` is an HTML representation of the markdown document and
`error_messages` is a list of tuples with the following elements
- `severity` e.g. `:error`, `:warning` or `:deprecation`
- line number in input where the error occurred
- description of the error
`options` can be an `%Earmark.Options{}` structure, or can be passed in as a `Keyword` argument (with legal keys for `%Earmark.Options`
* `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.
* `code_class_prefix`: binary
Code blocks will be rendered with prefixed class names, which might be necessary for
usage with 3rd party libraries.
Earmark.as_html("\`\`\`elixir\\nCode\\n\`\`\`", code_class_prefix: "my_prefix_")
{:ok, "<pre><code class=\\"elixir my_prefix_elixir\\">Code\\\```</code></pre>\\n", []}
* `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})
* `pure_links`: boolean
Pure links of the form `~r{\\bhttps?://\\S+\\b}` are rendered as links from now on.
However, by setting the `pure_links` option to `false` this can be disabled and pre 1.4
behavior can be used.
"""
def as_html(lines, options \\ %Options{})
def as_html(lines, options) when is_list(options) do
as_html(lines, struct(Options, options))
end
def as_html(lines, options) do
{status, ast, messages} = as_ast(lines, options)
{status, Earmark.Transform.transform(ast, options), messages}
end
@doc """
iex(12)> markdown = "My `code` is **best**"
...(12)> {:ok, ast, []} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown)
...(12)> ast
[{"p", [], ["My ", {"code", [{"class", "inline"}], ["code"], %{}}, " is ", {"strong", [], ["best"], %{}}], %{}}]
Options are passes like to `as_html`, some do not have an effect though (e.g. `smartypants`) as formatting and escaping is not done
for the AST.
iex(13)> markdown = "```elixir\\nIO.puts 42\\n```"
...(13)> {:ok, ast, []} = Earmark.as_ast(markdown, code_class_prefix: "lang-")
...(13)> ast
[{"pre", [], [{"code", [{"class", "elixir lang-elixir"}], ["IO.puts 42"], %{}}], %{}}]
**Rationale**:
The AST is exposed in the spirit of [Floki's](https://hex.pm/packages/floki).
"""
def as_ast(lines, options \\ %Options{})
def as_ast(lines, options) when is_list(options) do
as_ast(lines, struct(Options, options))
end
def as_ast(lines, options) do
context = _as_ast(lines, options)
messages = sort_messages(context)
status =
case Enum.any?(messages, fn {severity, _, _} ->
severity == :error || severity == :warning
end) do
true -> :error
_ -> :ok
end
{status, context.value, messages}
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) when is_list(options) do
as_html!(lines, struct(Options, options))
end
def as_html!(lines, options = %Options{}) do
{_status, html, messages} = as_html(lines, options)
emit_messages(messages, options)
html
end
defp _as_ast(lines, options) do
{blocks, context} = Earmark.Parser.parse_markdown(lines, options)
Earmark.AstRenderer.render(blocks, context)
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: to_string(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