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I would prefer an AST which was moderately easily returned to markdown, rather than one which is lower level (which I'd consider HTML to be) but not a bad idea if other options aren't useful inspiration enough, thanks.
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A brief glance suggests github.com/icyleaf/markd/bloโฆ is the AST -- is that right? (While I said any language will do, Crystal and Ruby are not ones I'm yet familiar with navigating)
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Nice. There will be easier to use options (e.g. using serde and yaml-rust directly to convert from yaml to Rust structs) but if you care about provenance and reporting errors then you might find `marked-yaml` to be of use :D Issues and PRs *gratefully* received.
I've been directed toward mdast by someone in another place, but looking at those other impls sounds sensible too. Pandoc's AST is so far the most obvious thing to crib from.
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The spec is definitely useful, though it doesn't really come out and say "this is the AST" it's more of a set of rules for identifying and parsing the components. AFAICT. Perhaps I missed an AST definition in my skim?
We also consume YAML as input, and I wrote crates.io/crates/marked-yaml over the past couple of weeks for similar purposes :D
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I am working on a tool with a friend which consumes markdown as a semi-structured input format. In order to better report errors in the input, I want to be able to point at the line (and column perhaps) where the error exists.
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Not quite. I am putting together a provenanced Markdown AST and want to ensure that it's as nicely structured as it can be. Parsing Markdown is a total pig, but there're good libraries for that already.
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Dear Lazyweb/Twitterverse,
Do you have a favourite Markdown AST? I am already looking at Pandoc's AST for inspiration, but other examples would be useful.
Any programming language is fine, I am capable of consuming ideas from most genres.
Thanks, D.
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For those interested, it's primary purpose is to allow you to report back to users when configuration values are bad etc, in a more effective way. Everyone loves provenanced errors.
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This morning I released version 0.1.0 of `marked-yaml` which is a @rustlang library crate for a simplified YAML data structure which provides spans (or at least start marks) for all the data you parse out of YAML strings.
crates.io/crates/marked-yaml
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Presumably either there's some super-secret headers trainfares.co.uk need to add, or gmail needs to learn to cope with their emails.
So far you've not been recommending it, but in 4 days of Go, surely you have encountered something *positive* to say ?
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