From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T15:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:

> Now, authors of all libraries are solving 2 problems - parse & generate. It
> should be nice to have one common HTML parser, which could be used either
> for HTML->Textile, or for HTML->Markdown (only generators will differ).

Well, ClothRed has to parse HTML to output Textile. It does not more 
than that. If you plug it into a converter suit, you can use HTML as an 
intermediary format (RedCloth can parse Textile and Markdown into HTML, 
so you'd have already a little part of such a converter).

>>From some poin of view, we can use Textile as intermediate, your library
> would be "parser", RedCloth would be "generator". But this leaves Markdown,
> Rdoc "off the game", while we have no Markdown->Textile and similar
> convertors.

Granted, the scope of my library is limited, but purposefully so, to 
keep it a) manageable, and b) keep it in line with my skills. Once 
ClothRed is feature-complete, I can add to its functionality, but not 
sooner, if I can avoid it.

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Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/

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Open-Source is not a panacea.