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buffer.c | ||
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document.c | ||
document.h | ||
escape.c | ||
escape.h | ||
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html_blocks.c | ||
html_smartypants.c | ||
html.c | ||
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LICENSE | ||
README.md | ||
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Hoedown
Hoedown
is a revived fork of Sundown,
the Markdown parser based on the original code of the
Upskirt library
by Natacha Porté.
Features
-
Fully standards compliant
Hoedown
passes out of the box the official Markdown v1.0.0 and v1.0.3 test suites, and has been extensively tested with additional corner cases to make sure its output is as sane as possible at all times. -
Massive extension support
Hoedown
has optional support for several (unofficial) Markdown extensions, such as non-strict emphasis, fenced code blocks, tables, autolinks, strikethrough and more. -
UTF-8 aware
Hoedown
is fully UTF-8 aware, both when parsing the source document and when generating the resulting (X)HTML code. -
Tested & Ready to be used on production
Hoedown
has been extensively security audited, and includes protection against all possible DOS attacks (stack overflows, out of memory situations, malformed Markdown syntax...).We've worked very hard to make
Hoedown
never leak or crash under any input.Warning:
Hoedown
doesn't validate or post-process the HTML in Markdown documents. Unless you useHTML_ESCAPE
orHTML_SKIP
, you should strongly consider using a good post-processor in conjunction with Hoedown to prevent client-side attacks. -
Customizable renderers
Hoedown
is not stuck with XHTML output: the Markdown parser of the library is decoupled from the renderer, so it's trivial to extend the library with custom renderers. A fully functional (X)HTML renderer is included. -
Optimized for speed
Hoedown
is written in C, with a special emphasis on performance. When wrapped on a dynamic language such as Python or Ruby, it has shown to be up to 40 times faster than other native alternatives. -
Zero-dependency
Hoedown
is a zero-dependency library composed of some.c
files and their headers. No dependencies, no bullshit. Only standard C99 that builds everywhere. -
Additional features
Hoedown
comes with a fully functional implementation of SmartyPants, a separate autolinker, escaping utilities, buffers and stacks.
Bindings
You can see a community-maintained list of Hoedown
bindings at
the wiki. There is also a
migration guide
available for authors of Sundown bindings.
Help us
Hoedown
is all about security. If you find a (potential) security vulnerability in the
library, or a way to make it crash through malicious input, please report it to us by
emailing the private Hoedown Security
mailing list. The Hoedown
security team will review the vulnerability and work with you
to reproduce and resolve it.
Unicode character handling
Given that the Markdown spec makes no provision for Unicode character handling, Hoedown
takes a conservative approach towards deciding which extended characters trigger Markdown
features:
-
Punctuation characters outside of the U+007F codepoint are not handled as punctuation. They are considered as normal, in-word characters for word-boundary checks.
-
Whitespace characters outside of the U+007F codepoint are not considered as whitespace. They are considered as normal, in-word characters for word-boundary checks.
Install
Just typing make
will build Hoedown
into a dynamic library and create the hoedown
and smartypants
executables, which are command-line tools to render Markdown to HTML
and perform SmartyPants, respectively.
If you are using CocoaPods, just add the line pod 'hoedown'
to your Podfile and call pod install
.
Or, if you prefer, you can just throw the files at src
into your project.