As noted in passing in another post, I'm writing a library (like RedCloth) for turning a specific text markup syntax into HTML/XML. OWLScribble is this work in progress, and it's working pretty well right now!
For information on the markup syntax itself:
http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/rdoc/OWLScribble/markup.html
For information on using the OWLScribble class:
http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/rdoc/OWLScribble/doc/index.html
From the intro documentation:
"OWLScribble converts a specific set of text markup into HTML. (The syntax used in the markup is a knockoff of the markup used by OpenWiki, so the ‘OWL’ in OWLScribble means "OpenWiki-like".)
The tree of elements created during parsing is made available, along with collections for specific types of elements, such as a list of all wiki-commands or wiki page links. This lets you modify the element tree (e.g. perform a database lookup on pages and replace the links with html anchors to your URL) after parsing, but before creating the HTML string."
I'm not yet cool enough to know how to make this into a gem. I hope to do that in the next week or so as I get near release quality. (Right now, there aren't enough unit tests for me to feel good about calling this ready for the wild, and there are a couple minor tweaks I may want to make to the markup syntax.)
I certainly appreciate all feedback -- positive and negative -- regarding the quality of the documentation, efficiency of the code, or features/interface in the class.
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