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		draegtun on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of Markdown >I would love pointers to Markdown processors that are implemented in a more principled way than the original code, for example using standard-looking lexing and parsing passes... Have a look at Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit. https://metacpan.org/module/Markdent

gordonguthrie on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

I wrote a manual parser with look-aheads in Erlang (making extensive use of Erlang's pattern matching.

https://github.com/hypernumbers/erlmarkdown

No regexps.... except for url's and emails :(

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