goldmark
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> A Markdown parser written in Go. Easy to extend, standards-compliant, well-structured.
goldmark is compliant with CommonMark 0.29.
Motivation
----------------------
I needed a Markdown parser for Go that satisfies the following requirements:
- Easy to extend.
- Markdown is poor in document expressions compared to other light markup languages such as reStructuredText.
- We have extensions to the Markdown syntax, e.g. PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub Flavored Markdown.
- Standards-compliant.
- Markdown has many dialects.
- GitHub-Flavored Markdown is widely used and is based upon CommonMark, effectively mooting the question of whether or not CommonMark is an ideal specification.
- CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement.
- Well-structured.
- AST-based; preserves source position of nodes.
- Written in pure Go.
[golang-commonmark](https://gitlab.com/golang-commonmark/markdown) may be a good choice, but it seems to be a copy of [markdown-it](https://github.com/markdown-it).
[blackfriday.v2](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/tree/v2) is a fast and widely-used implementation, but is not CommonMark-compliant and cannot be extended from outside of the package, since its AST uses structs instead of interfaces.
Furthermore, its behavior differs from other implementations in some cases, especially regarding lists: [Deep nested lists don't output correctly #329](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/329), [List block cannot have a second line #244](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/244), etc.
This behavior sometimes causes problems. If you migrate your Markdown text from GitHub to blackfriday-based wikis, many lists will immediately be broken.
As mentioned above, CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement, so Markdown parsers based on CommonMark are few and far between.
Features
----------------------
- **Standards-compliant.** goldmark is fully compliant with the latest [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org/) specification.
- **Extensible.** Do you want to add a `@username` mention syntax to Markdown?
You can easily do so in goldmark. You can add your AST nodes,
parsers for block-level elements, parsers for inline-level elements,
transformers for paragraphs, transformers for the whole AST structure, and
renderers.
- **Performance.** goldmark's performance is on par with that of cmark,
the CommonMark reference implementation written in C.
- **Robust.** goldmark is tested with [go-fuzz](https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz), a fuzz testing tool.
- **Built-in extensions.** goldmark ships with common extensions like tables, strikethrough,
task lists, and definition lists.
- **Depends only on standard libraries.**
Installation
----------------------
```bash
$ go get github.com/yuin/goldmark
```
Usage
----------------------
Import packages:
```go
import (
"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
)
```
Convert Markdown documents with the CommonMark-compliant mode:
```go
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
With options
------------------------------
```go
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, &buf, parser.WithContext(ctx)); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithContext` | A `parser.Context` | Context for the parsing phase. |
Context options
----------------------
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithIDs` | A `parser.IDs` | `IDs` allows you to change logics that are related to element id(ex: Auto heading id generation). |
Custom parser and renderer
--------------------------
```go
import (
"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/extension"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/parser"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html"
)
md := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(extension.GFM),
goldmark.WithParserOptions(
parser.WithAutoHeadingID(),
),
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithHardWraps(),
html.WithXHTML(),
),
)
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := md.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
```
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `goldmark.WithParser` | `parser.Parser` | This option must be passed before `goldmark.WithParserOptions` and `goldmark.WithExtensions` |
| `goldmark.WithRenderer` | `renderer.Renderer` | This option must be passed before `goldmark.WithRendererOptions` and `goldmark.WithExtensions` |
| `goldmark.WithParserOptions` | `...parser.Option` | |
| `goldmark.WithRendererOptions` | `...renderer.Option` | |
| `goldmark.WithExtensions` | `...goldmark.Extender` | |
Parser and Renderer options
------------------------------
### Parser options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `parser.WithBlockParsers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.BlockParser` | Parsers for parsing block level elements. |
| `parser.WithInlineParsers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.InlineParser` | Parsers for parsing inline level elements. |
| `parser.WithParagraphTransformers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.ParagraphTransformer` | Transformers for transforming paragraph nodes. |
| `parser.WithASTTransformers` | A `util.PrioritizedSlice` whose elements are `parser.ASTTransformer` | Transformers for transforming an AST. |
| `parser.WithAutoHeadingID` | `-` | Enables auto heading ids. |
| `parser.WithAttribute` | `-` | Enables custom attributes. Currently only headings supports attributes. |
### HTML Renderer options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `html.WithWriter` | `html.Writer` | `html.Writer` for writing contents to an `io.Writer`. |
| `html.WithHardWraps` | `-` | Render newlines as `
`.|
| `html.WithXHTML` | `-` | Render as XHTML. |
| `html.WithUnsafe` | `-` | By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially dangerous links. With this option, goldmark renders such content as written. |
### Built-in extensions
- `extension.Table`
- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Tables](https://github.github.com/gfm/#tables-extension-)
- `extension.Strikethrough`
- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Strikethrough](https://github.github.com/gfm/#strikethrough-extension-)
- `extension.Linkify`
- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Autolinks](https://github.github.com/gfm/#autolinks-extension-)
- `extension.TaskList`
- [GitHub Flavored Markdown: Task list items](https://github.github.com/gfm/#task-list-items-extension-)
- `extension.GFM`
- This extension enables Table, Strikethrough, Linkify and TaskList.
- This extension does not filter tags defined in [6.11: Disallowed Raw HTML (extension)](https://github.github.com/gfm/#disallowed-raw-html-extension-).
If you need to filter HTML tags, see [Security](#security).
- `extension.DefinitionList`
- [PHP Markdown Extra: Definition lists](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#def-list)
- `extension.Footnote`
- [PHP Markdown Extra: Footnotes](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#footnotes)
- `extension.Typographer`
- This extension substitutes punctuations with typographic entities like [smartypants](https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/).
### Attributes
The `parser.WithAttribute` option allows you to define attributes on some elements.
Currently only headings support attributes.
**Attributes are being discussed in the
[CommonMark forum](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272).
This syntax may possibly change in the future.**
#### Headings
```
## heading ## {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
## heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
```
```
heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue}
============
```
### Typographer extension
The Typographer extension translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into typographic-punctuation HTML entities.
Default substitutions are:
| Punctuation | Default entity |
| ------------ | ---------- |
| `'` | `‘`, `’` |
| `"` | `“`, `”` |
| `--` | `–` |
| `---` | `—` |
| `...` | `…` |
| `<<` | `«` |
| `>>` | `»` |
You can override the defualt substitutions via `extensions.WithTypographicSubstitutions`:
```go
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewTypographer(
extension.WithTypographicSubstitutions(extension.TypographicSubstitutions{
extension.LeftSingleQuote: []byte("‚"),
extension.RightSingleQuote: nil, // nil disables a substitution
}),
),
),
)
```
### Linkify extension
The Linkify extension implements [Autolinks(extension)](https://github.github.com/gfm/#autolinks-extension-), as
defined in [GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec](https://github.github.com/gfm/).
Since the spec does not define details about URLs, there are numerous ambiguous cases.
You can override autolinking patterns via options.
| Functional option | Type | Description |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols` | `[][]byte` | List of allowed protocols such as `[][]byte{ []byte("http:") }` |
| `extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines URLs, including protocols |
| `extension.WithLinkifyWWWRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines URL starting with `www.`. This pattern corresponds to [the extended www autolink](https://github.github.com/gfm/#extended-www-autolink) |
| `extension.WithLinkifyEmailRegexp` | `*regexp.Regexp` | Regexp that defines email addresses` |
Example, using [xurls](https://github.com/mvdan/xurls):
```go
import "mvdan.cc/xurls/v2"
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithXHTML(),
html.WithUnsafe(),
),
goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewLinkify(
extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols([][]byte{
[]byte("http:"),
[]byte("https:"),
}),
extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp(
xurls.Strict(),
),
),
),
)
```
Security
--------------------
By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially-dangerous URLs.
If you need to gain more control over untrusted contents, it is recommended that you
use an HTML sanitizer such as [bluemonday](https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday).
Benchmark
--------------------
You can run this benchmark in the `_benchmark` directory.
### against other golang libraries
blackfriday v2 seems to be the fastest, but as it is not CommonMark compliant, its performance cannot be directly compared to that of the CommonMark-compliant libraries.
goldmark, meanwhile, builds a clean, extensible AST structure, achieves full compliance with
CommonMark, and consumes less memory, all while being reasonably fast.
```
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
BenchmarkMarkdown/Blackfriday-v2-12 326 3465240 ns/op 3298861 B/op 20047 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoldMark-12 303 3927494 ns/op 2574809 B/op 13853 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/CommonMark-12 244 4900853 ns/op 2753851 B/op 20527 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/Lute-12 130 9195245 ns/op 9175030 B/op 123534 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoMarkdown-12 9 113541994 ns/op 2187472 B/op 22173 allocs/op
```
### against cmark (CommonMark reference implementation written in C)
```
----------- cmark -----------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0037760639 sec
go run ./goldmark_benchmark.go
------- goldmark -------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0040964230 sec
```
As you can see, goldmark's performance is on par with cmark's.
Extensions
--------------------
- [goldmark-meta](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark-meta): A YAML metadata
extension for the goldmark Markdown parser.
- [goldmark-highlighting](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark-highlighting): A syntax-highlighting extension
for the goldmark markdown parser.
- [goldmark-mathjax](https://github.com/litao91/goldmark-mathjax): Mathjax support for the goldmark markdown parser
goldmark internal(for extension developers)
----------------------------------------------
### Overview
goldmark's Markdown processing is outlined in the diagram below.
```
|
V
+-------- parser.Parser ---------------------------
| 1. Parse block elements into AST
| 1. If a parsed block is a paragraph, apply
| ast.ParagraphTransformer
| 2. Traverse AST and parse blocks.
| 1. Process delimiters(emphasis) at the end of
| block parsing
| 3. Apply parser.ASTTransformers to AST
|
V
|
V
+------- renderer.Renderer ------------------------
| 1. Traverse AST and apply renderer.NodeRenderer
| corespond to the node type
|
V