Parse hyperlinks

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:

cargo install parse-hyperlinks

Usage example:

Create a file input.txt:

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:

$ ./parse-hyperlinks <input.txt >ouput.html

Inspect output.html:

<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a><br/>
<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><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>

parse-hyperlinks 0.17.2

Parse hyperlinks