NAME

Text::Markdown::Discount - fast function for converting markdown to HTML (requires C compiler)

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Markdown::Discount;
my $html = markdown($text)

DESCRIPTION

Text::Markdown::Discount is a perl interface to the Discount library, a C implementation of John Gruber's markdown.

It is the fastest of the Perl modules available for converting markdown: see the list in "SEE ALSO". It passes Gruber's Markdown testsuite.

Given that the performance of Discount, Text::Markdown::Discount processes markdown formatted text quickly and passes the Markdown test suite at http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/MarkdownTest_1.0.zip

The interface of the markdown() function in this module is not compatible with the markdown() function in Text::Markdown.

EXPORT

markdown is exported by default.

FUNCTION

• Text::Markdown::Discount::with_html5_tags()

  This function enables html5 block-level elements support. Text::Markdown::Discount::markdown() will handle these html5 tags as block elements: aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section, article.

  NOTE: There is no way to disable/re-enable this feature in one process right now.

    use Text::Markdown::Discount;
    Text::Markdown::Discount::with_html5_tags();
    my $html = markdown('<article>content</article>');
    #
    # In $html, <article> tag won't be wrapped with <p> tag
  

SEE ALSO

There are other modules on CPAN for converting Markdown:

• Text::Markdown is a pure-perl markdown converter.
• Markdent is a toolkit for parsing markdown, which can also be used to convert markdown to HTML.
• Text::Markup is a converter than can handle a number of input formats, including markdown.
• Text::MultiMarkdown converts MultiMarkdown (a superset of the original markdown format) to HTML.

Additional markdown resources:

• Discount - David Loren Parsons's library for converting markdown, written in C.
• Markdown definition - John Gruber's original definition of the markdown format.
• Markdown testsuite - John Gruber's testsuite for markdown.
• Markdown modules - a review of all Perl modules for handling markdown, written by Neil Bowers.

AUTHOR

Masayoshi Sekimura, sekimura@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 by Masayoshi Sekimura

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

This product includes software developed by David Loren Parsons <http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc>