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    copied!<blockquote> <p>Edit: I recently learned about a project called CommonMark, which correctly identifies and deals with the ambiguities in the original Markdown specification. <a href="http://commonmark.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://commonmark.org/</a> It has great C# library support.</p> </blockquote> <p>You can find the syntax <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p>The source that follows with the download is written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl" rel="noreferrer">Perl</a>, which I have no intentions of honoring. It is riddled with regular expressions, and it relies on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5" rel="noreferrer">MD5</a> hashes to escape certain characters. Something is just wrong about that!</p> <p>I'm about to hard code a parser for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" rel="noreferrer">Markdown</a>. What is experience with this?</p> <p>If you don't have anything meaningful to say about the actual parsing of Markdown, spare me the time. (This might sound harsh, but yes, I'm looking for insight, not a solution, that is, a third-party library).</p> <p>To help a bit with the answers, regular expressions are meant to <strong>identify patterns</strong>! NOT to parse an entire grammar. That people consider doing so is foobar.</p> <ul> <li>If you think about Markdown, it's fundamentally based around the concept of paragraphs.</li> <li>As such, a reasonable approach might be to split the input into paragraphs. </li> <li>There are many kinds of paragraphs, for example, heading, text, list, blockquote, and code.</li> <li>The challenge is thus to identify these paragraphs and in what context they occur.</li> </ul> <p>I'll be back with a solution, once I find it's worthy to be shared.</p>
 

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