Parsing Markdownd from WYSIWYG code editor

[Riccardo Sirigu]

Hi everybody,

I'm using a markdown editor to allow users some control over the formatting of the text they enter.

I subclassed Transformer to add two decorators to disable img and links.

The Transformer produces a String and not a NodeSeq, so when I try to render the text, I see all the html unparsed.

I solved using "#desc" #> Unparsed(new MyMarkdownParser().apply(activityDescription))

Is there a better way to do it?

Thank you

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

Unfortunately right now there isn't (well, you can parse the string into XML

yourself first). It would definitely be nice to shift the Markdown parser to

parse into first-class NodeSeqs instead of into an HTML string, though.

Thanks,

Antonio

[Torsten Uhlmann]

It's not much different but uses Lift's parser, you could do something like this:

import net.liftweb.util

PCDataXmlParser(new MyMarkdownParser().apply(activityDescription)).openOr(NodeSeq.Empty)

It tries to render valid XML and will return an empty Box if that fails.

Torsten.

[Riccardo Sirigu]

Thank you guys

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

You got it!