MKD_FUNCTIONS(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					  MKD_FUNCTIONS(3)

NAME

     mkd_functions -- access and process Markdown documents.

LIBRARY

     Markdown (libmarkdown, -lmarkdown)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <mkdio.h>

     int
     mkd_compile(MMIOT *document, int flags);

     int
     mkd_css(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

     int
     mkd_generatecss(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

     int
     mkd_document(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

     int
     mkd_generatehtml(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

     int
     mkd_xhtmlpage(MMIOT *document, int flags, FILE *output);

     int
     mkd_toc(MMIOT *document, char **doc);

     void
     mkd_generatetoc(MMIOT *document, FILE *output);

     void
     mkd_cleanup(MMIOT*);

     char*
     mkd_doc_title(MMIOT*);

     char*
     mkd_doc_author(MMIOT*);

     char*
     mkd_doc_date(MMIOT*);

DESCRIPTION

     The markdown format supported in this implementation includes Pandoc-style header and inline <style> blocks, and the standard markdown(3)
     functions do not provide access to the data provided by either of those extensions.  These functions give you access to that data, plus they
     provide a finer-grained way of converting Markdown documents into HTML.

     Given a MMIOT* generated by mkd_in() or mkd_string(), mkd_compile() compiles the document into <style>, Pandoc, and html sections.

     Once compiled, the document can be examined and written by the mkd_css(), mkd_document(), mkd_generatecss(), mkd_generatehtml(),
     mkd_generatetoc(), mkd_toc(), mkd_xhtmlpage(), mkd_doc_title(), mkd_doc_author(), and mkd_doc_date() functions.

     mkd_css() allocates a string and populates it with any <style> sections provided in the document, mkd_generatecss() writes any <style> sec-
     tions to the output, mkd_document() points text to the text of the document and returns the size of the document, mkd_generatehtml() writes
     the rest of the document to the output, and mkd_doc_title(), mkd_doc_author(), mkd_doc_date() are used to read the contents of a Pandoc
     header, if any.

     mkd_xhtmlpage() writes a xhtml page containing the document.  The regular set of flags can be passed.

     mkd_toc() writes a document outline, in the form of a collection of nested lists with links to each header in the document, into a string
     allocated with malloc(), and returns the size.

     mkd_generatetoc() is like mkd_toc(), except that it writes the document outline to the given FILE* argument.

     mkd_cleanup() deletes a MMIOT* after processing is done.

     mkd_compile() accepts the same flags that markdown() and mkd_string() do;
     MKD_NOIMAGE	  Do not process `![]' and remove <img> tags from the output.
     MKD_NOLINKS	  Do not process `[]' and remove <a> tags from the output.
     MKD_NOPANTS	  Do not do Smartypants-style mangling of quotes, dashes, or ellipses.
     MKD_TAGTEXT	  Process the input as if you were inside a html tag.  This means that no html tags will be generated, and mkd_compile()
			  will attempt to escape anything that might terribly confuse a web browser.
     MKD_NO_EXT 	  Do not process any markdown pseudo-protocols when handing [][] links.
     MKD_NOHEADER	  Do not attempt to parse any Pandoc-style headers.
     MKD_TOC		  Label all headers for use with the mkd_generatetoc() function.
     MKD_1_COMPAT	  MarkdownTest_1.0 compatibility flag; trim trailing spaces from the first line of code blocks and disable implicit refer-
			  ence links.
     MKD_NOSTRIKETHROUGH  Disable strikethrough support.

RETURN VALUES

     The function mkd_compile() returns 1 in the case of success, or 0 if the document is already compiled.  The function mkd_generatecss()
     returns the number of bytes written in the case of success, or EOF if an error occurred.  The function mkd_generatehtml() returns 0 on suc-
     cess, -1 on failure.

SEE ALSO

     markdown(1), markdown(3), mkd-line(3), markdown(7), mkd-extensions(7), mmap(2).

     http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

BUGS

     Error handling is minimal at best.

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