Export parsed document as html

[mynona]

How can I export the parsed document as HTML string?

[MahdiBM]

I'd expect that you'd need to write a MarkupVisitor that transforms the markdown into HTML.
The question is, would swift-markdown want to host such a visitor and provide it by default?
Based on my experience, this wouldn't be a niche feature.

I know Vapor-Community's HTMLKit does have such a feature already, although I haven't used it myself.

[mynona]

Hi @MahdiBM , ok, I get it, this repository is just to parse markdown to Swift. It's a pitty because we have already three repositories basically doing the same

1. This one (because cmark provides already a function for this)
2. Vapor community: The wrapper from Tim -> filled a issue for this one
3. Vapor community: HTMLKit

Maybe it would be good to have one repository to handle this. Just a thought.

Anyway, thanks for your answer.

[MahdiBM]

I'm on the same page as you. It might be worth it to have markdown to HTML conversions here.
I'd be curious to know what @QuietMisdreavus thinks.

[0xTim]

There's also https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite/blob/f14274e7b265db6037396d0cf8d6376b78bb00be/Sources/Ignite/Rendering/Markdown/MarkdownToHTML.swift

[QuietMisdreavus]

I wrote an HTML formatter a year and a half ago, but never landed it. I need to revisit that PR to see if it needs to be updated before merging it and having Yet Another Swift Markdown-To-HTML Converter.

[QuietMisdreavus]

Revisiting this thread: I've just merged #106, so if you can use the main branch in your projects you should be able to use this functionality in Swift-Markdown.