mkd-functions(3) - Linux man page

Name

mkd_functions - access and process Markdown documents.

Library

Markdown (libmarkdown, -lmarkdown)

Synopsis

#include <mkdio.h>

int

mkd_compile(MMIOT *document, int flags);

int

mkd_css(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

int

mkd_generatecss(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

int

mkd_document(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

int

mkd_generatehtml(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

int

mkd_xhtmlpage(MMIOT *document, int flags, FILE *output);

int

mkd_toc(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

void

mkd_generatetoc(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

void

mkd_cleanup(MMIOT*);

char*

mkd_doc_title(MMIOT*);

char*

mkd_doc_author(MMIOT*);

char*

mkd_doc_date(MMIOT*);

Description

The markdown format supported in this implementation includes Pandoc-style header and inline <style> blocks, and the standard markdown(3) functions do not provide access to the data provided by either of those extensions. These functions give you access to that data, plus they provide a finer-grained way of converting Markdown documents into HTML.

Given a MMIOT* generated by mkd_in() or mkd_string(), mkd_compile() compiles the document into <style>, Pandoc, and html sections.

Once compiled, the document can be examined and written by the mkd_css(), mkd_document(), mkd_generatecss(), mkd_generatehtml(), mkd_generatetoc(), mkd_toc(), mkd_xhtmlpage(), mkd_doc_title(), mkd_doc_author(), and mkd_doc_date() functions.

mkd_css() allocates a string and populates it with any <style> sections provided in the document, mkd_generatecss() writes any <style> sections to the output, mkd_document() points text to the text of the document and returns the size of the document, mkd_generatehtml() writes the rest of the document to the output, and mkd_doc_title(), mkd_doc_author(), mkd_doc_date() are used to read the contents of a Pandoc header, if any.

mkd_xhtmlpage() writes a xhtml page containing the document. The regular set of flags can be passed.

mkd_toc() writes a document outline, in the form of a collection of nested lists with links to each header in the document, into a string allocated with malloc(), and returns the size.

mkd_generatetoc() is like mkd_toc(), except that it writes the document outline to the given FILE* argument.

mkd_cleanup() deletes a MMIOT* after processing is done.

mkd_compile() accepts the same flags that markdown() and mkd_string() do; 

      MKD_NOIMAGE'                     Do not process '![]' and remove <img>tags from the output.
MKD_NOLINKS' Do not process '[]' and remove <a> tags from the output.
MKD_NOPANTS' Do not do Smartypants-style mangling of quotes, dashes, or ellipses.
MKD_TAGTEXT' Process the input as if you were inside a html tag. This means that no html tags will be generated, and mkd_compile() will attempt to escape anything that might terribly confuse a web browser.
MKD_NO_EXT' Do not process any markdown pseudo-protocols when handing [][] links.
MKD_NOHEADER' Do not attempt to parse any Pandoc-style headers.
MKD_TOC' Label all headers for use with the mkd_generatetoc() function.
MKD_1_COMPAT' MarkdownTest_1.0 compatibility flag; trim trailing spaces from the first line of code blocks and disable implicit reference links.
MKD_NOSTRIKETHROUGH
Disable strikethrough support.

Return Values

The function mkd_compile() returns 1 in the case of success, or 0 if the document is already compiled. The function mkd_generatecss() returns the number of bytes written in the case of success, or EOF if an error occurred. The function mkd_generatehtml() returns 0 on success, -1 on failure.

See Also

markdown(1), markdown(3), mkd-line(3), markdown(7), mkd-extensions(7), mmap(2).

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Bugs

Error handling is minimal at best.

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