From: James Tippett <james@...4.net.au>
Date: 2010-02-15T17:27:22+09:00
Subject: how to add a custom "tag" to markdown

Hi list,

In a project I need to add some kind of custom "tag" to markdown which will be pre-processed by the application. In an otherwise normal bit of markdown text (a news posting), I would like to be able to refer to other posts, whose URL and description, etc, will be looked up by the app and added. It might look something like this:

article:12345

the application would see that text in the post, look up what article 12345 is, and replace the reference with a link as appropriate.

What would be the best way to achieve this? Some sort of preprocessing? Or is there an easy/elegant way to extend Markdown to support this kind of thing "natively"?

thanks for any suggestions,

James