From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T22:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:56:50PM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> 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).

Are you using Hpricot for your parsing? If so, it should be pretty easy to
do the conversion. If not, why not? (Disclaimer: I've been following the
thread but haven't looked at or even installed/run the code.)

> >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.

I understand where you are with this. At the same time, I have an actual
need to do something very much like this in my own work. I suspect there
are others out there in a similar situation. We're hoping that this will
become useful to us sooner rather than later and that we can avoid rolling
our own.

> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
--Greg