A parser library written with Nom to recognize hyperlinks and link reference definitions in Markdown, reStructuredText, Asciidoc and HTML formatted text input.
The library implements the CommonMark Specification 0.29, reStructuredText Markup Specification (revision 8571, date 2020-10-28), the specifications in Asciidoctor User Manual, chapter 26 (date 2020-12-03) and HTML 5.2: section 4.5.
To illustrate the usage and the API of the library, parse-hyperlinks comes also with a simple command line application.
Installation:
bash
cargo install parse-hyperlinks
Usage example:
Create a file input.txt:
text
abc [my blog](https://getreu.net "blog title")abc
[my blog]: https://getreu.net "blog title"
abc`my blog <https://getreu.net>`_abc
.. _my blog: https://get
reu.net
abc<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a>abc
abc https://getreu.net[my blog]abc
Run parse-hyperlinks:
shell
$ ./parse-hyperlinks <input.txt >ouput.html
Inspect output.html:
html
$ cat ouput.html
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>