MarkdownSyntax is a wrapper on top of the Github Flavoured Markdown that conforms to mdast. It parses markdown and creates a normalized AST so you can use it not only for rendering markdown and syntax highlighting. In addition, you can render to standard cmark formats HTML, XML, Man, Latex, Plain Text.
let input = "Hi this is **alpha**"
let tree = try Markdown(text: input).parse()Outputs a normalized tree:
Root(
children: [
Paragraph(
children: [
Text(
value: "Hi this is ",
position: Position(
start: Point(line: 1, column: 1, offset: 0),
end: Point(line: 1, column: 11, offset: 10),
indent: nil
)
),
Strong(
children: [
Text(
value: "alpha",
position: Position(
start: Point(line: 1, column: 14, offset: 13),
end: Point(line: 1, column: 18, offset: 17),
indent: nil
)
)
],
position: Position(
start: Point(line: 1, column: 12, offset: 11),
end: Point(line: 1, column: 20, offset: 19),
indent: nil
)
)
],
position: Position(
start: Point(line: 1, column: 1, offset: 0),
end: Point(line: 1, column: 20, offset: 19),
indent: nil
)
)
],
position: Position(
start: Point(line: 1, column: 1, offset: 0),
end: Point(line: 1, column: 20, offset: 19),
indent: nil
)
)For more examples checkout the tests MarkdownSyntaxTests.
The Swift Package Manager is a tool for automating the distribution of Swift code and is integrated into the swift compiler.
Once you have your Swift package set up, adding MarkdownSyntax as a dependency is as easy as adding it to the dependencies value of your Package.swift.
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/hebertialmeida/MarkdownSyntax", from: "1.1.0")
]