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goldmark
==========================================
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> A Markdown parser written in Go. Easy to extend, standards-compliant, well-structured.
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goldmark is compliant with CommonMark 0.29.
Motivation
----------------------
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I needed a Markdown parser for Go that satisfies the following requirements:
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- Easy to extend.
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- Markdown is poor in document expressions compared to other light markup languages such as reStructuredText.
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- We have extensions to the Markdown syntax, e.g. PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub Flavored Markdown.
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- Standards-compliant.
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- Markdown has many dialects.
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- GitHub-Flavored Markdown is widely used and is based upon CommonMark, effectively mooting the question of whether or not CommonMark is an ideal specification.
- CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement.
- Well-structured.
- AST-based; preserves source position of nodes.
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- Written in pure Go.
[golang-commonmark ](https://gitlab.com/golang-commonmark/markdown ) may be a good choice, but it seems to be a copy of [markdown-it ](https://github.com/markdown-it ).
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[blackfriday.v2 ](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/tree/v2 ) is a fast and widely-used implementation, but is not CommonMark-compliant and cannot be extended from outside of the package, since its AST uses structs instead of interfaces.
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Furthermore, its behavior differs from other implementations in some cases, especially regarding lists: [Deep nested lists don't output correctly #329 ](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/329 ), [List block cannot have a second line #244 ](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/244 ), etc.
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This behavior sometimes causes problems. If you migrate your Markdown text from GitHub to blackfriday-based wikis, many lists will immediately be broken.
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As mentioned above, CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement, so Markdown parsers based on CommonMark are few and far between.
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Features
----------------------
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- **Standards-compliant.** goldmark is fully compliant with the latest [CommonMark ](https://commonmark.org/ ) specification.
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- **Extensible.** Do you want to add a `@username` mention syntax to Markdown?
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You can easily do so in goldmark. You can add your AST nodes,
parsers for block-level elements, parsers for inline-level elements,
transformers for paragraphs, transformers for the whole AST structure, and
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renderers.
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- **Performance.** goldmark's performance is on par with that of cmark,
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the CommonMark reference implementation written in C.
- **Robust.** goldmark is tested with [go-fuzz ](https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz ), a fuzz testing tool.
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- **Built-in extensions.** goldmark ships with common extensions like tables, strikethrough,
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task lists, and definition lists.
- **Depends only on standard libraries.**
Installation
----------------------
```bash
$ go get github.com/yuin/goldmark
```
Usage
----------------------
Import packages:
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```go
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import (
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"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
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)
```
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Convert Markdown documents with the CommonMark-compliant mode:
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```go
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
With options
------------------------------
```go
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, & buf, parser.WithContext(ctx)); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithContext` | A `parser.Context` | Context for the parsing phase. |
Context options
----------------------
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithIDs` | A `parser.IDs` | `IDs` allows you to change logics that are related to element id(ex: Auto heading id generation). |
Custom parser and renderer
--------------------------
```go
import (
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"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/extension"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/parser"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html"
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)
md := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(extension.GFM),
goldmark.WithParserOptions(
parser.WithAutoHeadingID(),
),
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithHardWraps(),
html.WithXHTML(),
),
)
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := md.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
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| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `goldmark.WithParser` | `parser.Parser` | This option must be passed before `goldmark.WithParserOptions` and `goldmark.WithExtensions` |
| `goldmark.WithRenderer` | `renderer.Renderer` | This option must be passed before `goldmark.WithRendererOptions` and `goldmark.WithExtensions` |
| `goldmark.WithParserOptions` | `...parser.Option` | |
| `goldmark.WithRendererOptions` | `...renderer.Option` | |
| `goldmark.WithExtensions` | `...goldmark.Extender` | |
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Parser and Renderer options
------------------------------
### Parser options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithBlockParsers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.BlockParser` | Parsers for parsing block level elements. |
| `parser.WithInlineParsers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.InlineParser` | Parsers for parsing inline level elements. |
| `parser.WithParagraphTransformers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.ParagraphTransformer` | Transformers for transforming paragraph nodes. |
| `parser.WithASTTransformers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.ASTTransformer` | Transformers for transforming an AST. |
| `parser.WithAutoHeadingID` | `-` | Enables auto heading ids. |
| `parser.WithAttribute` | `-` | Enables custom attributes. Currently only headings supports attributes. |
### HTML Renderer options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `html.WithWriter` | `html.Writer` | `html.Writer` for writing contents to an `io.Writer` . |
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| `html.WithHardWraps` | `-` | Render newlines as `<br>` .|
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| `html.WithXHTML` | `-` | Render as XHTML. |
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| `html.WithUnsafe` | `-` | By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially dangerous links. With this option, goldmark renders such content as written. |
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### Built-in extensions
- `extension.Table`
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- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Tables ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#tables-extension- )
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- `extension.Strikethrough`
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- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Strikethrough ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#strikethrough-extension- )
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- `extension.Linkify`
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- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Autolinks ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#autolinks-extension- )
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- `extension.TaskList`
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- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Task list items ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#task-list-items-extension- )
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- `extension.GFM`
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- This extension enables Table, Strikethrough, Linkify and TaskList.
- This extension does not filter tags defined in [6.11: Disallowed Raw HTML (extension) ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#disallowed-raw-html-extension- ).
If you need to filter HTML tags, see [Security ](#security ).
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- `extension.DefinitionList`
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- [PHP Markdown Extra: Definition lists ](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#def-list )
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- `extension.Footnote`
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- [PHP Markdown Extra: Footnotes ](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#footnotes )
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- `extension.Typographer`
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- This extension substitutes punctuations with typographic entities like [smartypants ](https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ ).
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### Attributes
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The `parser.WithAttribute` option allows you to define attributes on some elements.
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Currently only headings support attributes.
**Attributes are being discussed in the
[CommonMark forum ](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272 ).
This syntax may possibly change in the future.**
#### Headings
```
## heading ## {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
## heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
```
```
heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue}
============
```
### Typographer extension
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The Typographer extension translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into typographic-punctuation HTML entities.
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Default substitutions are:
| Punctuation | Default entity |
| ------------ | ---------- |
| `'` | `‘` , `’` |
| `"` | `“` , `”` |
| `--` | `–` |
| `---` | `—` |
| `...` | `…` |
| `<<` | `«` |
| `>>` | `»` |
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You can override the defualt substitutions via `extensions.WithTypographicSubstitutions` :
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```go
markdown := goldmark.New(
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goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewTypographer(
extension.WithTypographicSubstitutions(extension.TypographicSubstitutions{
extension.LeftSingleQuote: []byte("‚ "),
extension.RightSingleQuote: nil, // nil disables a substitution
}),
),
),
)
```
### Linkify extension
The Linkify extension implements [Autolinks(extension) ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#autolinks-extension- ), as
defined in [GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec ](https://github.github.com/gfm/ ).
Since the spec does not define details about URLs, there are numerous ambiguous cases.
You can override autolinking patterns via options.
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols` | `[][]byte` | List of allowed protocols such as `[][]byte{ []byte("http:") }` |
| `extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines URLs, including protocols |
| `extension.WithLinkifyWWWRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines URL starting with `www.` . This pattern corresponds to [the extended www autolink ](https://github.github.com/gfm/#extended-www-autolink ) |
| `extension.WithLinkifyEmailRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines email addresses` |
Example, using [xurls ](https://github.com/mvdan/xurls ):
```go
import "mvdan.cc/xurls/v2"
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithXHTML(),
html.WithUnsafe(),
),
goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewLinkify(
extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols([][]byte{
[]byte("http:"),
[]byte("https:"),
}),
extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp(
xurls.Strict(),
),
),
),
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)
```
Security
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By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially-dangerous URLs.
If you need to gain more control over untrusted contents, it is recommended that you
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use an HTML sanitizer such as [bluemonday ](https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday ).
Benchmark
--------------------
You can run this benchmark in the `_benchmark` directory.
### against other golang libraries
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blackfriday v2 seems to be the fastest, but as it is not CommonMark compliant, its performance cannot be directly compared to that of the CommonMark-compliant libraries.
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goldmark, meanwhile, builds a clean, extensible AST structure, achieves full compliance with
CommonMark, and consumes less memory, all while being reasonably fast.
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```
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
BenchmarkMarkdown/Blackfriday-v2-12 326 3465240 ns/op 3298861 B/op 20047 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoldMark-12 303 3927494 ns/op 2574809 B/op 13853 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/CommonMark-12 244 4900853 ns/op 2753851 B/op 20527 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/Lute-12 130 9195245 ns/op 9175030 B/op 123534 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoMarkdown-12 9 113541994 ns/op 2187472 B/op 22173 allocs/op
```
### against cmark (CommonMark reference implementation written in C)
```
----------- cmark -----------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0037760639 sec
go run ./goldmark_benchmark.go
------- goldmark -------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0040964230 sec
```
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As you can see, goldmark's performance is on par with cmark's.
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Extensions
--------------------
- [goldmark-meta ](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark-meta ): A YAML metadata
extension for the goldmark Markdown parser.
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- [goldmark-highlighting ](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark-highlighting ): A syntax-highlighting extension
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for the goldmark markdown parser.
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- [goldmark-mathjax ](https://github.com/litao91/goldmark-mathjax ): Mathjax support for the goldmark markdown parser
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goldmark internal(for extension developers)
----------------------------------------------
### Overview
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goldmark's Markdown processing is outlined in the diagram below.
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```
< Markdown in [ ] byte , parser . Context >
|
V
+-------- parser.Parser ---------------------------
| 1. Parse block elements into AST
| 1. If a parsed block is a paragraph, apply
| ast.ParagraphTransformer
| 2. Traverse AST and parse blocks.
| 1. Process delimiters(emphasis) at the end of
| block parsing
| 3. Apply parser.ASTTransformers to AST
|
V
< ast.Node >
|
V
+------- renderer.Renderer ------------------------
| 1. Traverse AST and apply renderer.NodeRenderer
| corespond to the node type
|
V
< Output >
```
### Parsing
Markdown documents are read through `text.Reader` interface.
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AST nodes do not have concrete text. AST nodes have segment information of the documents, represented by `text.Segment` .
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`text.Segment` has 3 attributes: `Start` , `End` , `Padding` .
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(TBC)
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**TODO**
See `extension` directory for examples of extensions.
Summary:
1. Define AST Node as a struct in which `ast.BaseBlock` or `ast.BaseInline` is embedded.
2. Write a parser that implements `parser.BlockParser` or `parser.InlineParser` .
3. Write a renderer that implements `renderer.NodeRenderer` .
4. Define your goldmark extension that implements `goldmark.Extender` .
Donation
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BTC: 1NEDSyUmo4SMTDP83JJQSWi1MvQUGGNMZB
License
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MIT
Author
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Yusuke Inuzuka