markdown-to-ast

Parse Markdown to AST with location info.

This library is not parser itself, it dependent on wooorm/remark.

Markdown -> remark -> markdown-to-ast -> TxtNodes

The AST consists of TxtNodes. A TxtNode of the AST has following properties:

loc - Nodes have line and column-based location info.
range - Nodes have an index-based location range (array).
raw - Node have a raw text.
value - Node have a value of text.

The interface are defined in textlint/txtnode.md

This library is a part of textlint/textlint.

If you need to markdown parser, please use wooorm/remark directly.

DEMO

Online Parsing Demo provide markdown to AST on-the-fly.

Installation

npm install markdown-to-ast

Usage

var parse = require("markdown-to-ast").parse;
var markdown = "It's a *text*";
var AST = parse(markdown);
/*
{
    "type": "Document",
    "children": [
        {
            "type": "Paragraph",
            "children": [
                {
                    "type": "Str",
                    "value": "It's a ",
                    "loc": {
                        "start": {
                            "line": 1,
                            "column": 0
                        },
                        "end": {
                            "line": 1,
                            "column": 7
                        }
                    },
                    "range": [
                        0,
                        7
                    ],
                    "raw": "It's a "
                },
                {
                    "type": "Emphasis",
                    "children": [
                        {
                            "type": "Str",
                            "value": "text",
                            "loc": {
                                "start": {
                                    "line": 1,
                                    "column": 8
                                },
                                "end": {
                                    "line": 1,
                                    "column": 12
                                }
                            },
                            "range": [
                                8,
                                12
                            ],
                            "raw": "text"
                        }
                    ],
                    "loc": {
                        "start": {
                            "line": 1,
                            "column": 7
                        },
                        "end": {
                            "line": 1,
                            "column": 13
                        }
                    },
                    "range": [
                        7,
                        13
                    ],
                    "raw": "*text*"
                }
            ],
            "loc": {
                "start": {
                    "line": 1,
                    "column": 0
                },
                "end": {
                    "line": 1,
                    "column": 13
                }
            },
            "range": [
                0,
                13
            ],
            "raw": "It's a *text*"
        }
    ],
    "loc": {
        "start": {
            "line": 1,
            "column": 0
        },
        "end": {
            "line": 1,
            "column": 13
        }
    },
    "range": [
        0,
        13
    ],
    "raw": "It's a *text*"
}
*/

If you want to know real use-case, please see textlint/textlint.

Tests

npm test

Create fixtures

See tools/ directory.

Contributing

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D