unparser-shared 0.6.0

Shared plumbing for the un* document extraction family — C-ABI conventions today; markdown refine and VLM/AI capabilities land as opt-in features
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//! CommonMark syntax facts every Markdown writer in the family needs.
//!
//! Each library renders its own document model, and how it styles a run is its own business.
//! *Where* an emphasis delimiter may stand, and how text the document supplies — a picture's
//! description, a link's target — has to be written so that it stays inside the construct it
//! belongs to, are not: they are properties of CommonMark, and a writer that gets them wrong
//! prints its syntax as text. This module answers those questions once so the writers cannot
//! drift on them.
//!
//! `std`-only, like the rest of the crate root.

use std::ops::Range;

/// The part of a styled run that emphasis delimiters (`*`, `**`, `~~`) can wrap, given the
/// characters the run lands between, or `None` when no part can.
///
/// `before` is the last character already written, `after` the first one the next piece will
/// write (`None` at either end of the inline content). The text outside the returned range is
/// written as-is, outside the delimiters.
///
/// CommonMark reads a delimiter as emphasis only when it *flanks* the text (§6.2): it may not
/// touch whitespace on its inside, and when its inside is punctuation its outside must be
/// whitespace, punctuation, or the end of the line. So:
///
/// - leading and trailing whitespace always stays outside — `**word **` is not emphasis;
/// - leading or trailing punctuation stays outside too, with any whitespace behind it, when
///   the run touches a letter or digit on that side — an italic `", s"` after `32` written as
///   `32*, s*` shows its asterisks, written as `32, *s*` it does not;
/// - a run that is nothing but whitespace, or nothing but punctuation between words, has
///   nothing to wrap.
///
/// Punctuation that does not touch a word stays inside (`*i.e.,*`, `*(h)*`), so a run is not
/// reshaped unless it has to be.
///
/// `text` may already be escaped: a backslash escape (`\*`) is one unit and is never split
/// across a delimiter. Only escapes of ASCII punctuation are units, as in CommonMark.
///
/// ```
/// use unparser_shared::markdown::emphasis_span;
///
/// let wrap = |text: &str, before, after| {
///     emphasis_span(text, before, after).map_or(text.to_string(), |r| {
///         format!("{}*{}*{}", &text[..r.start], &text[r.clone()], &text[r.end..])
///     })
/// };
/// assert_eq!(wrap(", s", Some('2'), Some(' ')), ", *s*");
/// assert_eq!(wrap("word ", None, Some('x')), "*word* ");
/// assert_eq!(wrap(",", Some('8'), Some('a')), ",");
/// assert_eq!(wrap("(h)", Some(' '), None), "*(h)*");
/// ```
pub fn emphasis_span(
    text: &str,
    before: Option<char>,
    after: Option<char>,
) -> Option<Range<usize>> {
    let mut start = text.len() - text.trim_start().len();
    let mut end = text.trim_end().len();
    if start >= end {
        return None;
    }
    let touches_a_word = |c: Option<char>| c.is_some_and(|c| !is_flanking_neutral(c));
    if start == 0 && touches_a_word(before) {
        start = units(text, start, end)
            .find(|&(i, j)| !unit_is_neutral(&text[i..j]))
            .map_or(end, |(i, _)| i);
    }
    if end == text.len() && touches_a_word(after) {
        end = units(text, start, end)
            .filter(|&(i, j)| !unit_is_neutral(&text[i..j]))
            .last()
            .map_or(start, |(_, j)| j);
    }
    (start < end).then_some(start..end)
}

/// A picture as an inline image: `![alt](destination)`.
///
/// The alt text is data from the document — whatever a person typed into a description box:
/// several lines, blank lines, brackets. Written verbatim, a blank line ends the paragraph and
/// the image reads back as literal text plus a stray paragraph, and an unbalanced `]` ends the
/// link text early. So the alt text is flattened to one line — every run of whitespace becomes
/// one space, the ends trimmed — and the characters that are syntax inside link text are
/// escaped: `\`, `[`, `]`, `` ` `` (a code span would swallow the closing bracket), `<` (raw
/// HTML or an autolink), and an `&` that would start a character reference (`&amp;` would read
/// back as `&`). Inside a table cell `|` is escaped too, since it would end the cell. `*` and
/// `_` are left alone: unmatched they are literal, matched they only style the text, and
/// neither can end the image.
///
/// The destination is written by [`link_destination`].
///
/// ```
/// use unparser_shared::markdown::image;
///
/// assert_eq!(
///     image("A view\n\nof the harbour", "img/1.png", false),
///     "![A view of the harbour](img/1.png)"
/// );
/// assert_eq!(image("a [draft]", "my dir/a.png", false), r"![a \[draft\]](<my dir/a.png>)");
/// assert_eq!(image("x | y", "a.png", true), r"![x \| y](a.png)");
/// ```
pub fn image(alt: &str, destination: &str, in_table_cell: bool) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(alt.len() + destination.len() + 5);
    out.push_str("![");
    for (n, word) in alt.split_whitespace().enumerate() {
        if n > 0 {
            out.push(' ');
        }
        for (i, c) in word.char_indices() {
            match c {
                '\\' | '[' | ']' | '`' | '<' => {
                    out.push('\\');
                    out.push(c);
                }
                '&' if starts_character_reference(&word[i + 1..]) => out.push_str("\\&"),
                '|' if in_table_cell => out.push_str("\\|"),
                _ => out.push(c),
            }
        }
    }
    out.push_str("](");
    out.push_str(&link_destination(destination, in_table_cell));
    out.push(')');
    out
}

/// A code span holding `text` exactly as given: CommonMark reads it back as `text`, every line
/// ending in it read as one space.
///
/// Nothing is escaped inside a code span — a backslash there is printed (CommonMark §6.1), so
/// the text is written as it is and the span is fenced instead:
///
/// - the fence is one backtick longer than the longest run of backticks in the text, so no run
///   inside can close it;
/// - one space pads each side when the text starts or ends with a backtick (it would join the
///   fence) or both starts and ends with a space (a reader strips one from each side) — the
///   reader strips the padding again;
/// - a line ending becomes a space, so a blank line cannot end the paragraph mid-span;
/// - inside a table cell `|` is escaped — a GFM table splits its cells before it reads code
///   spans, and reads `\|` back as `|` inside them.
///
/// Empty text has no code span and gives an empty string.
///
/// ```
/// use unparser_shared::markdown::code_span;
///
/// assert_eq!(code_span(r"C:\dir", false), r"`C:\dir`");
/// assert_eq!(code_span("a`b", false), "``a`b``");
/// assert_eq!(code_span("`x`", false), "`` `x` ``");
/// assert_eq!(code_span(" a ", false), "`  a  `");
/// assert_eq!(code_span("a | b", true), r"`a \| b`");
/// assert_eq!(code_span("", false), "");
/// ```
pub fn code_span(text: &str, in_table_cell: bool) -> String {
    if text.is_empty() {
        return String::new();
    }
    let text = text.replace("\r\n", " ").replace(['\r', '\n'], " ");
    let longest_run = text.split(|c| c != '`').map(str::len).max().unwrap_or(0);
    let fence = "`".repeat(longest_run + 1);
    let pad = text.starts_with('`')
        || text.ends_with('`')
        || (text.starts_with(' ')
            && text.ends_with(' ')
            && !text.trim_start_matches(' ').is_empty());
    let pad = if pad { " " } else { "" };
    let body = if in_table_cell {
        text.replace('|', "\\|")
    } else {
        text
    };
    format!("{fence}{pad}{body}{pad}{fence}")
}

/// An inline link: `[label](destination)`, or `[label](destination "title")`.
///
/// `label` is inline Markdown the writer has already rendered — its text escaped and styled
/// the writer's own way (`**bold**`, `<u>…</u>`, a code span). What this adds is what keeps
/// that Markdown *inside the link*, which no display setting may turn off:
///
/// - an unescaped `[` or `]` is escaped — an unbalanced `]` ends the link text early, and a
///   `[x](y)` inside it would be a second link, which CommonMark does not nest;
/// - a line ending becomes a space, so a blank line cannot end the paragraph mid-link;
/// - a backslash at the very end is doubled, since it would otherwise escape the closing `]`;
/// - inside a table cell, an unescaped `|` is escaped, code spans included — a GFM table
///   splits its cells before it reads anything else.
///
/// Code spans are left as they are (apart from that `|`): a code span binds more tightly than
/// the link's brackets, so a `]` inside one does not end the link, and a backslash inside one
/// would be printed. Backslash escapes the label already carries (`\*`, `\[`) are kept as
/// they are. The label is not expected to hold a link, an image, an autolink or raw HTML with
/// a bracket in it.
///
/// The destination is written by [`link_destination`]. The title, when there is one and it is
/// not empty, is written in double quotes: `"` is escaped, a backslash that would escape the
/// character after it is doubled, an `&` that would start a character reference is escaped,
/// a line ending becomes a space, and inside a table cell `|` is escaped.
///
/// ```
/// use unparser_shared::markdown::link;
///
/// assert_eq!(link("see [3]", "https://example.com", None, false), r"[see \[3\]](https://example.com)");
/// assert_eq!(link("**bold** `a]b`", "u", None, false), "[**bold** `a]b`](u)");
/// assert_eq!(link("x", "u", Some(r#"say "hi""#), false), r#"[x](u "say \"hi\"")"#);
/// assert_eq!(link("a | b", "u", None, true), r"[a \| b](u)");
/// ```
pub fn link(label: &str, destination: &str, title: Option<&str>, in_table_cell: bool) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(label.len() + destination.len() + 4);
    out.push('[');
    push_link_label(&mut out, label, in_table_cell);
    out.push_str("](");
    out.push_str(&link_destination(destination, in_table_cell));
    if let Some(title) = title.filter(|t| !t.is_empty()) {
        out.push_str(" \"");
        let mut chars = title.char_indices().peekable();
        while let Some((i, c)) = chars.next() {
            match c {
                '\\' if chars.peek().is_none_or(|&(_, n)| n.is_ascii_punctuation()) => {
                    out.push_str("\\\\")
                }
                '"' => out.push_str("\\\""),
                '&' if starts_character_reference(&title[i + 1..]) => out.push_str("\\&"),
                '|' if in_table_cell => out.push_str("\\|"),
                '\n' | '\r' => out.push(' '),
                _ => out.push(c),
            }
        }
        out.push('"');
    }
    out.push(')');
    out
}

/// Append `label` as link text — see [`link`] for what is escaped and what is kept.
fn push_link_label(out: &mut String, label: &str, in_table_cell: bool) {
    let chars: Vec<char> = label.chars().collect();
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < chars.len() {
        let c = chars[i];
        match c {
            '\\' => match chars.get(i + 1) {
                // An escape the label already carries: one unit, kept.
                Some(&n) if n.is_ascii_punctuation() => {
                    out.push('\\');
                    out.push(n);
                    i += 2;
                    continue;
                }
                None => out.push_str("\\\\"),
                Some(_) => out.push('\\'),
            },
            '`' => {
                let run = chars[i..].iter().take_while(|&&b| b == '`').count();
                if let Some(close) = closing_backticks(&chars, i + run, run) {
                    // A code span, written as it is: no escapes inside, but a GFM cell
                    // still splits on its `|`.
                    for (k, &s) in chars[i..close + run].iter().enumerate() {
                        match s {
                            '\n' | '\r' => out.push(' '),
                            '|' if in_table_cell && (k == 0 || chars[i + k - 1] != '\\') => {
                                out.push_str("\\|")
                            }
                            _ => out.push(s),
                        }
                    }
                    i = close + run;
                } else {
                    // No closing run of the same length: the backticks are literal.
                    out.extend(std::iter::repeat_n('`', run));
                    i += run;
                }
                continue;
            }
            '[' | ']' => {
                out.push('\\');
                out.push(c);
            }
            '|' if in_table_cell => out.push_str("\\|"),
            '\n' | '\r' => out.push(' '),
            _ => out.push(c),
        }
        i += 1;
    }
}

/// Where the backtick run of exactly `len` that closes a code span opened before `from`
/// starts, if there is one.
fn closing_backticks(chars: &[char], from: usize, len: usize) -> Option<usize> {
    let mut j = from;
    while j < chars.len() {
        if chars[j] == '`' {
            let run = chars[j..].iter().take_while(|&&b| b == '`').count();
            if run == len {
                return Some(j);
            }
            j += run;
        } else {
            j += 1;
        }
    }
    None
}

/// A link or image destination, written so that CommonMark reads back exactly `url` (§6.3).
///
/// The bare form is used when it can carry the URL: no spaces, no ASCII control characters,
/// no `<` or `>`, and parentheses that balance — an unbalanced `)` would end the destination
/// early, a `(` would leave it open. Anything else is written in the pointy-bracket form
/// `<...>`, which takes spaces and any parentheses. A line ending cannot stand in either form;
/// it is percent-encoded (`%0A`, `%0D`), the one place the URL is changed rather than
/// escaped. In both forms a backslash that would otherwise escape the character after it — an
/// ASCII punctuation character, or the end of the destination — is doubled; other backslashes
/// (`C:\dir`) are literal and stay as they are. An `&` that would start a character reference
/// is escaped, so `?a=1&amp;b` stays as written. Inside a table cell `|` is escaped, since a
/// GFM table splits its cells before it reads links. An empty URL is `<>`.
///
/// A link that is not in a table cell passes `in_table_cell: false`.
///
/// ```
/// use unparser_shared::markdown::link_destination;
///
/// assert_eq!(link_destination("https://example.com/a(b)", false), "https://example.com/a(b)");
/// assert_eq!(link_destination("my folder/file.png", false), "<my folder/file.png>");
/// assert_eq!(link_destination("notes).txt", false), "<notes).txt>");
/// assert_eq!(link_destination("a<b>c", false), r"<a\<b\>c>");
/// ```
pub fn link_destination(url: &str, in_table_cell: bool) -> String {
    let bare = !url.is_empty()
        && !url
            .chars()
            .any(|c| c == ' ' || c == '<' || c == '>' || c.is_ascii_control())
        && parentheses_balance(url);
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(url.len() + 2);
    if !bare {
        out.push('<');
    }
    let mut chars = url.char_indices().peekable();
    while let Some((i, c)) = chars.next() {
        match c {
            // Judged on what is written next: a line ending goes out as `%`.
            '\\' if chars
                .peek()
                .is_none_or(|&(_, n)| n.is_ascii_punctuation() || n == '\n' || n == '\r') =>
            {
                out.push_str("\\\\")
            }
            '&' if starts_character_reference(&url[i + 1..]) => out.push_str("\\&"),
            '<' | '>' => {
                out.push('\\');
                out.push(c);
            }
            '|' if in_table_cell => out.push_str("\\|"),
            '\n' => out.push_str("%0A"),
            '\r' => out.push_str("%0D"),
            _ => out.push(c),
        }
    }
    if !bare {
        out.push('>');
    }
    out
}

/// Whether the text after an `&` makes it a character reference (§6.2) — `name;`, `#123;` or
/// `#x1F;` — which CommonMark would replace by the character it names.
fn starts_character_reference(rest: &str) -> bool {
    let Some(end) = rest.find(';') else {
        return false;
    };
    let body = &rest[..end];
    if let Some(number) = body.strip_prefix('#') {
        return match number.strip_prefix(['x', 'X']) {
            Some(hex) => (1..=6).contains(&hex.len()) && hex.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_hexdigit()),
            None => (1..=7).contains(&number.len()) && number.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()),
        };
    }
    body.starts_with(|c: char| c.is_ascii_alphabetic())
        && (2..=32).contains(&body.len())
        && body.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric())
}

/// Whether every `)` closes an earlier `(` and every `(` is closed. A backslash in the URL
/// does not shield a parenthesis: [`link_destination`] writes it as a literal backslash.
fn parentheses_balance(url: &str) -> bool {
    let mut depth = 0usize;
    for c in url.chars() {
        match c {
            '(' => depth += 1,
            ')' => match depth.checked_sub(1) {
                Some(d) => depth = d,
                None => return false,
            },
            _ => {}
        }
    }
    depth == 0
}

/// Whitespace or punctuation — what a delimiter may touch on its outside when its inside is
/// punctuation. CommonMark's punctuation is the Unicode P and S categories; a character that
/// is neither alphanumeric, whitespace nor a control is one of them, save for combining
/// marks, which do not stand at a run's edge.
fn is_flanking_neutral(c: char) -> bool {
    c.is_whitespace() || !(c.is_alphanumeric() || c.is_control())
}

/// A unit is neutral when the character it writes is: an escape writes punctuation.
fn unit_is_neutral(unit: &str) -> bool {
    unit.chars().last().is_some_and(is_flanking_neutral)
}

/// The byte ranges of `text[start..end]`'s units: one character, or a backslash and the ASCII
/// punctuation it escapes.
fn units(text: &str, start: usize, end: usize) -> impl Iterator<Item = (usize, usize)> + '_ {
    let mut chars = text[start..end].char_indices().peekable();
    std::iter::from_fn(move || {
        let (i, c) = chars.next()?;
        let mut j = i + c.len_utf8();
        if c == '\\' {
            if let Some(&(k, escaped)) = chars.peek() {
                if escaped.is_ascii_punctuation() {
                    j = k + escaped.len_utf8();
                    chars.next();
                }
            }
        }
        Some((start + i, start + j))
    })
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    /// `text` with `*` around its emphasis span.
    fn wrap(text: &str, before: Option<char>, after: Option<char>) -> String {
        emphasis_span(text, before, after).map_or(text.to_string(), |r| {
            format!(
                "{}*{}*{}",
                &text[..r.start],
                &text[r.clone()],
                &text[r.end..]
            )
        })
    }

    #[test]
    fn whitespace_stays_outside() {
        assert_eq!(wrap("  word  ", Some('a'), Some('b')), "  *word*  ");
        assert_eq!(emphasis_span("   ", None, None), None);
        assert_eq!(emphasis_span("", None, None), None);
    }

    #[test]
    fn leading_punctuation_against_a_word_moves_out_with_its_space() {
        assert_eq!(wrap(", s", Some('2'), Some(' ')), ", *s*");
    }

    #[test]
    fn trailing_punctuation_against_a_word_moves_out() {
        assert_eq!(wrap("word.", Some(' '), Some('x')), "*word*.");
        assert_eq!(wrap("word, ", Some(' '), Some('x')), "*word,* ");
    }

    #[test]
    fn punctuation_between_words_alone_has_nothing_to_wrap() {
        assert_eq!(emphasis_span(",", Some('8'), Some('a')), None);
        assert_eq!(emphasis_span(", ", Some('8'), None), None);
    }

    #[test]
    fn punctuation_against_space_punctuation_or_an_edge_stays_inside() {
        assert_eq!(wrap("i.e.,", Some(' '), Some(' ')), "*i.e.,*");
        assert_eq!(wrap("(h)", None, None), "*(h)*");
        assert_eq!(wrap("(h)", Some('('), Some(')')), "*(h)*");
        assert_eq!(
            wrap("Continued pretraining.", None, Some(' ')),
            "*Continued pretraining.*"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_word_on_either_side_moves_both_ends() {
        assert_eq!(wrap("(h)", Some('Q'), Some('x')), "(*h*)");
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_escape_is_never_split() {
        assert_eq!(wrap(r"\*x\_", Some('a'), Some('b')), r"\**x*\_");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_backslash_before_a_letter_is_not_an_escape() {
        assert_eq!(wrap(r"\a", Some('b'), None), r"\*a*");
    }

    #[test]
    fn non_ascii_punctuation_and_letters_count() {
        assert_eq!(wrap("“word”", Some('x'), Some('y')), "“*word*”");
        assert_eq!(wrap("단어", Some('가'), Some('나')), "*단어*");
    }
}