sigil-markdown

A CommonMark-style Markdown parser for Sigil with YAML front matter support. Produces SXML output for use with (sigil sxml).

Features

• CommonMark-style Markdown parsing
• YAML front matter extraction
• SXML AST output
• PEG-based inline parsing

Supported syntax

Usage

(import (sigil markdown))

;; Parse a Markdown string to SXML
(markdown->sxml "# Hello\n\nWorld")
;; => (document (h1 "Hello") (p "World"))

;; Parse a Markdown file
(markdown-file->sxml "README.md")

;; Front matter is parsed into SXML attributes
(markdown->sxml "---\ntitle: Hello\n---\n\n# Content")
;; => (document (@ (title "Hello")) (h1 "Content"))

API

• markdown->sxml - Parse a Markdown string to SXML
• markdown-file->sxml - Parse a Markdown file to SXML
• parse-front-matter - Extract YAML front matter from text
• parse-blocks - Lower-level block parser
• parse-inline - Lower-level inline parser

Dependencies

• sigil-stdlib - Sigil standard library
• sigil-peg - PEG parsing library

Development

sigil deps install
sigil build
sigil test

License

BSD-3-Clause