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docling_core/
markdown.rs

1//! Markdown serializer for [`DoclingDocument`].
2
3use crate::document::{DoclingDocument, Node, Table};
4
5/// How pictures are rendered (mirrors docling-core's `ImageRefMode`).
6#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
7pub enum ImageMode {
8    /// `<!-- image -->` (docling's default, and the only mode without image data).
9    #[default]
10    Placeholder,
11    /// `![Image](data:<mime>;base64,…)` — self-contained.
12    Embedded,
13    /// `![Image](<artifacts>/image_NNNNNN.<ext>)`; the bytes are returned for the
14    /// caller to write.
15    Referenced,
16}
17
18/// Serializer state threaded through the render walk.
19struct Ctx {
20    strict: bool,
21    /// Emit compact `| a | b |` tables instead of the padded GitHub serializer.
22    compact_tables: bool,
23    images: ImageMode,
24    artifacts_dir: String,
25    /// (relative path, bytes) for each referenced image — written by the caller.
26    artifacts: Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>,
27    pic_index: usize,
28}
29
30/// Render a document to a Markdown string (pictures as placeholders).
31///
32/// `strict` selects the serializer-level behaviours that differ between
33/// docling-legacy output and cleaner Markdown — currently the code-fence
34/// language (legacy drops it, strict keeps it).
35pub fn to_markdown(doc: &DoclingDocument, strict: bool) -> String {
36    to_markdown_images(doc, strict, ImageMode::Placeholder, "artifacts").0
37}
38
39/// Render to Markdown with an explicit picture [`ImageMode`]. Returns the
40/// Markdown and, for [`ImageMode::Referenced`], the `(path, bytes)` of each image
41/// the caller should write (relative to the Markdown file).
42pub fn to_markdown_images(
43    doc: &DoclingDocument,
44    strict: bool,
45    images: ImageMode,
46    artifacts_dir: &str,
47) -> (String, Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>) {
48    let mut ctx = Ctx {
49        strict,
50        compact_tables: doc.compact_tables,
51        images,
52        artifacts_dir: artifacts_dir.to_string(),
53        artifacts: Vec::new(),
54        pic_index: 0,
55    };
56    let mut blocks: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
57    render(&doc.nodes, &mut blocks, &mut ctx);
58    let mut body = blocks.join("\n\n");
59    // Strict mode only: turn recovered source hyperlinks into Markdown links.
60    // docling's standard pipeline drops them, so doing this in legacy mode would
61    // diverge from docling — hence strict-only, leaving conformance output intact.
62    if strict && !doc.links.is_empty() {
63        body = apply_links(&body, &doc.links);
64    }
65    let md = if body.is_empty() {
66        String::new()
67    } else {
68        format!("{body}\n")
69    };
70    (md, ctx.artifacts)
71}
72
73/// Wrap each recovered link's anchor text in Markdown `[anchor](href)`. Anchors
74/// arrive cleaned (curly quotes/dashes already normalized) but un-escaped, so we
75/// match against the body's HTML-escaped (`&`/`<`/`>`) form, the way prose nodes
76/// were serialized. Links are consumed in document order from a moving cursor, so
77/// a repeated anchor (e.g. two "issues") links its successive occurrences rather
78/// than all pointing at the first. An anchor that can't be located is skipped
79/// (its text may have been split across a line wrap or table cell).
80fn apply_links(body: &str, links: &[(String, String)]) -> String {
81    let mut out = body.to_string();
82    let mut cursor = 0usize;
83    for (anchor, href) in links {
84        let anchor = anchor
85            .replace('&', "&amp;")
86            .replace('<', "&lt;")
87            .replace('>', "&gt;");
88        if anchor.is_empty() {
89            continue;
90        }
91        if let Some(rel) = out[cursor..].find(&anchor) {
92            let at = cursor + rel;
93            // Don't relink inside an already-emitted `](` Markdown link target.
94            let replacement = format!("[{anchor}]({href})");
95            out.replace_range(at..at + anchor.len(), &replacement);
96            cursor = at + replacement.len();
97        }
98    }
99    out
100}
101
102/// Like [`apply_links`] but over a single chunk, consuming from a shared queue so
103/// the same `[anchor](href)` rewriting can be applied incrementally as Markdown is
104/// streamed out. Each queued link is matched (in document order) against `chunk`
105/// and rewritten in place; a link whose anchor is not in this chunk is carried
106/// forward in the queue for a later chunk. Anchors are recovered in document
107/// order and a chunk is always a contiguous run of whole blocks, so this
108/// reproduces [`apply_links`]' single moving cursor: the link lands in whichever
109/// chunk contains its anchor, identically to the buffered path. (A link whose
110/// anchor never appears is carried to the end and dropped — the same no-op
111/// `apply_links` performs for an unlocatable anchor.)
112fn apply_links_chunk(chunk: &str, queue: &mut Vec<(String, String)>) -> String {
113    let mut out = chunk.to_string();
114    let mut cursor = 0usize;
115    let mut carried: Vec<(String, String)> = Vec::new();
116    for (anchor_raw, href) in std::mem::take(queue) {
117        let anchor = anchor_raw
118            .replace('&', "&amp;")
119            .replace('<', "&lt;")
120            .replace('>', "&gt;");
121        if anchor.is_empty() {
122            continue;
123        }
124        if let Some(rel) = out[cursor..].find(&anchor) {
125            let at = cursor + rel;
126            let replacement = format!("[{anchor}]({href})");
127            out.replace_range(at..at + anchor.len(), &replacement);
128            cursor = at + replacement.len();
129        } else {
130            // Not in this chunk; try again when its block is flushed.
131            carried.push((anchor_raw, href));
132        }
133    }
134    *queue = carried;
135    out
136}
137
138/// Incremental Markdown serializer: feed finalized, in-document-order batches of
139/// [`Node`]s and receive Markdown chunks whose concatenation is **byte-identical**
140/// to [`to_markdown_images`] over the same nodes. This is the streaming
141/// counterpart of the buffered serializer — used to emit a document's Markdown in
142/// chunks (e.g. page by page, as the parallel PDF pipeline finishes pages) instead
143/// of building the whole string up front.
144///
145/// [`ImageMode::Placeholder`] and [`ImageMode::Embedded`] render inline.
146/// [`ImageMode::Referenced`] additionally hands each picture's bytes out through
147/// [`take_artifacts`](Self::take_artifacts) — construct with
148/// [`with_artifacts`](Self::with_artifacts) and drain after every push so the
149/// bytes can be written to disk as pages finish instead of accumulating for the
150/// whole document (issue #80's memory-bounded image handling).
151///
152/// Each [`push`](Self::push) must contain whole blocks in reading order: a caller
153/// must not split a run of list items across two pushes (the run would render as
154/// two separate lists). Finalized PDF page batches already satisfy this.
155pub struct MarkdownStreamer {
156    strict: bool,
157    images: ImageMode,
158    compact_tables: bool,
159    /// Whether any non-empty chunk has been emitted yet (drives `\n\n` joins and
160    /// the trailing newline).
161    emitted_any: bool,
162    /// Recovered links not yet placed (strict mode), consumed in document order.
163    links: Vec<(String, String)>,
164    /// Referenced mode: the link prefix, the not-yet-drained `(path, bytes)`
165    /// artifacts, and the running image number (continues across pushes so the
166    /// stream matches the buffered serializer's `image_000000…` numbering).
167    artifacts_dir: String,
168    artifacts: Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>,
169    pic_index: usize,
170}
171
172impl MarkdownStreamer {
173    /// Create a streamer. `compact_tables` mirrors [`DoclingDocument::compact_tables`].
174    /// For [`ImageMode::Referenced`] use [`with_artifacts`](Self::with_artifacts).
175    pub fn new(strict: bool, images: ImageMode, compact_tables: bool) -> Self {
176        debug_assert!(
177            images != ImageMode::Referenced,
178            "referenced image mode needs an artifacts dir; use with_artifacts"
179        );
180        Self::with_artifacts(strict, images, compact_tables, "artifacts")
181    }
182
183    /// Like [`new`](Self::new) but with the artifacts link prefix, allowing
184    /// [`ImageMode::Referenced`]: pictures render as
185    /// `![Image](<artifacts_dir>/image_NNNNNN.<ext>)` and each push's image
186    /// bytes wait in [`take_artifacts`](Self::take_artifacts) for the caller to
187    /// write. The concatenated chunks and the artifact list match the buffered
188    /// [`to_markdown_images`] byte-for-byte.
189    pub fn with_artifacts(
190        strict: bool,
191        images: ImageMode,
192        compact_tables: bool,
193        artifacts_dir: &str,
194    ) -> Self {
195        Self {
196            strict,
197            images,
198            compact_tables,
199            emitted_any: false,
200            links: Vec::new(),
201            artifacts_dir: artifacts_dir.to_string(),
202            artifacts: Vec::new(),
203            pic_index: 0,
204        }
205    }
206
207    /// The `(relative path, bytes)` of images rendered by pushes since the last
208    /// drain ([`ImageMode::Referenced`] only — empty otherwise). Paths are
209    /// relative to the Markdown file, i.e. they start with the configured
210    /// artifacts dir.
211    pub fn take_artifacts(&mut self) -> Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)> {
212        std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts)
213    }
214
215    /// Render one finalized batch of nodes (plus any links recovered from the same
216    /// span, in document order) into the next Markdown chunk. Returns an empty
217    /// string when the batch produces no output (e.g. empty tables/pictures), in
218    /// which case nothing should be written.
219    pub fn push(&mut self, nodes: &[Node], links: &[(String, String)]) -> String {
220        self.links.extend(links.iter().cloned());
221        let mut ctx = Ctx {
222            strict: self.strict,
223            compact_tables: self.compact_tables,
224            images: self.images,
225            artifacts_dir: std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts_dir),
226            artifacts: std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts),
227            pic_index: self.pic_index,
228        };
229        let mut blocks: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
230        render(nodes, &mut blocks, &mut ctx);
231        self.artifacts_dir = std::mem::take(&mut ctx.artifacts_dir);
232        self.artifacts = std::mem::take(&mut ctx.artifacts);
233        self.pic_index = ctx.pic_index;
234        if blocks.is_empty() {
235            return String::new();
236        }
237        let mut body = blocks.join("\n\n");
238        if self.strict && !self.links.is_empty() {
239            body = apply_links_chunk(&body, &mut self.links);
240        }
241        let chunk = if self.emitted_any {
242            format!("\n\n{body}")
243        } else {
244            body
245        };
246        self.emitted_any = true;
247        chunk
248    }
249
250    /// Emit the trailing newline that finishes the document (empty if no content
251    /// was produced). Call exactly once, after the final [`push`](Self::push).
252    pub fn finish(self) -> String {
253        if self.emitted_any {
254            "\n".to_string()
255        } else {
256            String::new()
257        }
258    }
259}
260
261/// In `strict` mode, rewrite inline text for readability rather than byte-for-byte
262/// docling fidelity: undo the legacy `\_` underscore escaping, and tighten stray
263/// spaces around punctuation (`[ 37 , 36 ]` → `[37, 36]`, `( x )` → `(x)`). This
264/// cleans up both the PDF backend's glyph-split spacing and the space the legacy
265/// emphasis serialization leaves before punctuation (`*a* ,` → `*a*,`).
266/// Legacy/default output keeps docling's spacing untouched. Only inline text
267/// nodes pass through here — code blocks and table cells are left alone.
268fn strict_text(text: &str, strict: bool) -> String {
269    if !strict {
270        return text.to_string();
271    }
272    text.replace("\\_", "_")
273        .replace(" ,", ",")
274        .replace(" .", ".")
275        .replace(" ;", ";")
276        .replace(" )", ")")
277        .replace("( ", "(")
278        .replace(" ]", "]")
279        .replace("[ ", "[")
280}
281
282fn render(nodes: &[Node], blocks: &mut Vec<String>, ctx: &mut Ctx) {
283    let mut i = 0;
284    while i < nodes.len() {
285        match &nodes[i] {
286            Node::ListItem { .. } => {
287                let start = i;
288                i += 1;
289                loop {
290                    match nodes.get(i) {
291                        Some(Node::ListItem { .. }) => i += 1,
292                        // An empty paragraph between two list items is absorbed
293                        // into the run — docling keeps such a ListGroup
294                        // contiguous rather than splitting it.
295                        Some(Node::Paragraph { text })
296                            if text.is_empty()
297                                && matches!(nodes.get(i + 1), Some(Node::ListItem { .. })) =>
298                        {
299                            i += 1
300                        }
301                        _ => break,
302                    }
303                }
304                render_list_run(&nodes[start..i], blocks, ctx.strict);
305            }
306            other => {
307                render_one(other, blocks, ctx);
308                i += 1;
309            }
310        }
311    }
312}
313
314/// Render a contiguous run of list items.
315///
316/// Ordered items use their explicit `number`. A new sibling list (marked by
317/// `first_in_list`) at the same depth is separated by a blank line, matching
318/// docling-core's serializer.
319fn render_list_run(items: &[Node], blocks: &mut Vec<String>, strict: bool) {
320    let mut lines: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
321    // Per level, the previous item's (ordered, number) so we can detect a new
322    // sibling list.
323    let mut prev: Vec<Option<(bool, u64)>> = Vec::new();
324
325    for item in items {
326        let Node::ListItem {
327            ordered,
328            number,
329            first_in_list,
330            text,
331            level,
332            marker: _,
333            location: _,
334            dclx: _,
335            href: _,
336            layer,
337        } = item
338        else {
339            continue;
340        };
341        // A non-body (furniture) list item is omitted from Markdown, matching
342        // docling's content-layer filtering.
343        if layer.is_some() {
344            continue;
345        }
346        let level = *level as usize;
347
348        // Returning to a shallower level ends the deeper sibling lists.
349        prev.truncate(level + 1);
350        while prev.len() <= level {
351            prev.push(None);
352        }
353
354        // A new sibling list at the same depth gets a blank line: the kind flips
355        // (`<ul>`↔`<ol>`), an ordered run breaks (`1, 2` then `42`), or the
356        // backend flagged a fresh list (e.g. Markdown's bullet changing `-`→`*`).
357        // Only at the top level: nested sibling groups are children of a list
358        // item, and docling joins an item's children without blank lines.
359        if level == 0 {
360            if let Some((prev_ordered, prev_number)) = prev[level] {
361                let new_list = *first_in_list
362                    || prev_ordered != *ordered
363                    || (*ordered && *number != prev_number + 1);
364                if new_list {
365                    lines.push(String::new());
366                }
367            }
368        }
369
370        let indent = "    ".repeat(level);
371        let marker = if *ordered {
372            format!("{number}.")
373        } else {
374            "-".to_string()
375        };
376        lines.push(format!("{indent}{marker} {}", strict_text(text, strict)));
377        prev[level] = Some((*ordered, *number));
378    }
379
380    // A run consisting only of furniture (content-layer-filtered) items yields no
381    // lines; pushing an empty block here would surface as a stray blank line.
382    if !lines.is_empty() {
383        blocks.push(lines.join("\n"));
384    }
385}
386
387fn render_one(node: &Node, blocks: &mut Vec<String>, ctx: &mut Ctx) {
388    match node {
389        Node::Heading { level, text } => {
390            let hashes = "#".repeat((*level).clamp(1, 6) as usize);
391            blocks.push(format!("{hashes} {}", strict_text(text, ctx.strict)));
392        }
393        // An empty body paragraph (docling's blank-line text item) contributes
394        // nothing to Markdown — only DocLang/JSON keep it.
395        Node::Paragraph { text } if text.is_empty() => {}
396        Node::Paragraph { text } => blocks.push(strict_text(text, ctx.strict)),
397        Node::CheckboxItem { checked, text } => {
398            let mark = if *checked { "- [x] " } else { "- [ ] " };
399            blocks.push(strict_text(&format!("{mark}{text}"), ctx.strict));
400        }
401        Node::Code { language, text, .. } => {
402            // Legacy docling never emits a language on the fence; strict keeps it.
403            let lang = match language {
404                Some(l) if ctx.strict => l.as_str(),
405                _ => "",
406            };
407            blocks.push(format!("```{lang}\n{text}\n```"));
408        }
409        // A CodeFormula-decoded display formula renders as docling's `$$…$$`
410        // (the un-enriched pipeline emits a placeholder paragraph instead).
411        Node::Formula { latex, .. } => blocks.push(format!("$${latex}$$")),
412        Node::Table(table) => {
413            // docling renders a table's caption as a text line before the grid.
414            // `caption` is already escaped (backend convention), like a paragraph.
415            if let Some(cap) = &table.caption {
416                if !cap.is_empty() {
417                    blocks.push(strict_text(cap, ctx.strict));
418                }
419            }
420            let rendered = render_table(table, ctx.compact_tables);
421            if !rendered.is_empty() {
422                blocks.push(rendered);
423            }
424        }
425        // Classification predictions don't affect docling's Markdown output.
426        Node::Picture { caption, image, .. } => {
427            if let Some(cap) = caption {
428                if !cap.is_empty() {
429                    blocks.push(cap.clone());
430                }
431            }
432            blocks.push(picture_marker(image.as_ref(), ctx));
433        }
434        // A chart renders as docling's picture-with-meta markdown: the caption,
435        // the placeholder, the humanized classification ("line_chart" ->
436        // "Line chart"), then the chart's data grid as a regular table.
437        Node::Chart {
438            kind,
439            table,
440            caption,
441            ..
442        } => {
443            if let Some(cap) = caption {
444                if !cap.is_empty() {
445                    blocks.push(cap.clone());
446                }
447            }
448            blocks.push(picture_marker(None, ctx));
449            blocks.push(humanize_label(kind));
450            let rendered = render_table(table, false);
451            if !rendered.is_empty() {
452                blocks.push(rendered);
453            }
454        }
455        // A DocLang-only node is omitted from Markdown.
456        Node::DoclangOnly(_) => {}
457        Node::Group { children, .. } => render(children, blocks, ctx),
458        Node::FieldRegion { items } => {
459            // docling renders the region container (which carries no text of its
460            // own) as a `<!-- missing-text -->` marker, then each field item the
461            // same way, followed by that item's marker/key/value as separate
462            // paragraphs.
463            blocks.push(MISSING_TEXT.to_string());
464            for item in items {
465                blocks.push(MISSING_TEXT.to_string());
466                for part in [&item.marker, &item.key, &item.value].into_iter().flatten() {
467                    blocks.push(strict_text(part, ctx.strict));
468                }
469            }
470        }
471        // A rich inline group renders exactly like a paragraph of its Markdown
472        // text — the structured runs are DocLang-only.
473        Node::InlineGroup { md_text, .. } => blocks.push(strict_text(md_text, ctx.strict)),
474        // A plain-text backend dump renders verbatim as a single block.
475        Node::TextDump(text) => {
476            if !text.is_empty() {
477                blocks.push(text.clone());
478            }
479        }
480        // Furniture (page headers/footers, HTML `<title>`) is excluded from
481        // Markdown by default, mirroring docling.
482        Node::Furniture { .. } => {}
483        Node::PageFurniture { .. } => {}
484        // Layout provenance is DocLang-only; render the wrapped node.
485        Node::Located { inner, .. } => render_one(inner, blocks, ctx),
486        // Page breaks are DocLang-only; docling omits them from Markdown.
487        Node::PageBreak => {}
488        // Page markers feed the JSON export only.
489        Node::PageInfo { .. } => {}
490        // Handled by the run-merging branch in `render`.
491        Node::ListItem { .. } => unreachable!("list items are rendered in runs"),
492    }
493}
494
495/// docling's placeholder for a structural node (a field region / item) that has
496/// no text of its own.
497const MISSING_TEXT: &str = "<!-- missing-text -->";
498
499/// The Markdown for a picture under the active [`ImageMode`]; Referenced mode also
500/// records the bytes in `ctx.artifacts` for the caller to write.
501/// docling-core's `_humanize_text`: underscores to spaces, first letter
502/// capitalized ("line_chart" -> "Line chart").
503fn humanize_label(label: &str) -> String {
504    let text = label.replace('_', " ");
505    let mut chars = text.chars();
506    match chars.next() {
507        Some(f) => f.to_uppercase().collect::<String>() + chars.as_str(),
508        None => text,
509    }
510}
511
512fn picture_marker(image: Option<&crate::PictureImage>, ctx: &mut Ctx) -> String {
513    match (ctx.images, image) {
514        (ImageMode::Embedded, Some(img)) => format!("![Image]({})", img.data_uri()),
515        (ImageMode::Referenced, Some(img)) => {
516            let path = format!(
517                "{}/image_{:06}.{}",
518                ctx.artifacts_dir,
519                ctx.pic_index,
520                ext_for(&img.mimetype)
521            );
522            ctx.pic_index += 1;
523            ctx.artifacts.push((path.clone(), img.data.clone()));
524            format!("![Image]({path})")
525        }
526        // Placeholder, or any mode with no extracted image.
527        _ => "<!-- image -->".to_string(),
528    }
529}
530
531fn ext_for(mimetype: &str) -> &str {
532    match mimetype {
533        "image/jpeg" => "jpg",
534        "image/gif" => "gif",
535        "image/webp" => "webp",
536        "image/bmp" => "bmp",
537        "image/tiff" => "tif",
538        _ => "png",
539    }
540}
541
542/// Render a table. `compact` selects between two serializers:
543///
544/// - **padded** (default) — docling-core's `tabulate(tablefmt="github")`: columns
545///   are padded to a fixed width (header width + a minimum padding of 2, or the
546///   widest data cell); numeric columns (every data cell parses as a number) are
547///   right-aligned, others left-aligned; separators are plain dashes of
548///   `width + 2`. Matches current published docling (DOCX/HTML conformance).
549/// - **compact** — `| a | b |` cells with single-dash `| - | - |` separators, no
550///   width padding. Matches the committed PDF groundtruth corpus, which predates
551///   the padded serializer.
552///
553/// Each cell is first escaped (`\n` → space, `|` → `&#124;`) so it can't break the
554/// table. Row 0 is the header.
555/// Whether a table cell counts as a number for column alignment, matching
556/// `tabulate`'s detection: an ordinary float/int (`f64`-parseable, covering
557/// `1e2`/`inf`/`+1.5`) **or** a thousands-separated number like `7,015`.
558fn is_number_cell(t: &str) -> bool {
559    t.parse::<f64>().is_ok() || is_thousands_number(t)
560}
561
562/// A number with comma thousands-separators, per `tabulate`'s
563/// `_float_with_thousands_separators` regex
564/// (`^(([+-]?[0-9]{1,3})(?:,([0-9]{3}))*)?(?(1)\.[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)?$`): the
565/// integer part is 1–3 digits then any number of `,ddd` groups; the fraction is
566/// optional (and, without an integer part, must have at least one digit).
567fn is_thousands_number(t: &str) -> bool {
568    let b = t.as_bytes();
569    let mut i = 0;
570    let start = i;
571    if i < b.len() && (b[i] == b'+' || b[i] == b'-') {
572        i += 1;
573    }
574    // First digit chunk: 1–3 digits.
575    let d0 = i;
576    while i < b.len() && b[i].is_ascii_digit() && i - d0 < 3 {
577        i += 1;
578    }
579    let has_int = i > d0;
580    if has_int {
581        // Subsequent `,ddd` groups (exactly three digits each).
582        while i + 3 < b.len() + 1
583            && b.get(i) == Some(&b',')
584            && b.get(i + 1).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
585            && b.get(i + 2).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
586            && b.get(i + 3).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
587        {
588            i += 4;
589        }
590    } else {
591        // A sign only counts with an integer part.
592        i = start;
593    }
594    // Optional fraction.
595    if i < b.len() && b[i] == b'.' {
596        i += 1;
597        let f0 = i;
598        while i < b.len() && b[i].is_ascii_digit() {
599            i += 1;
600        }
601        if !has_int && i == f0 {
602            return false; // `.` with no digits and no integer part
603        }
604    } else if !has_int {
605        return false; // neither integer nor fractional part
606    }
607    i == b.len()
608}
609
610pub(crate) fn render_table(table: &Table, compact: bool) -> String {
611    if table.rows.is_empty() {
612        return String::new();
613    }
614    let num_cols = table.rows.iter().map(Vec::len).max().unwrap_or(0);
615    if num_cols == 0 {
616        return String::new();
617    }
618
619    // Escaped, rectangular grid (ragged rows padded with empty cells). `tabulate`
620    // strips data cells of surrounding whitespace but leaves the header row as-is.
621    let grid: Vec<Vec<String>> = table
622        .rows
623        .iter()
624        .enumerate()
625        .map(|(r, row)| {
626            (0..num_cols)
627                .map(|c| {
628                    let cell = escape_cell(row.get(c).map(String::as_str).unwrap_or(""));
629                    if r == 0 {
630                        cell
631                    } else {
632                        cell.trim().to_string()
633                    }
634                })
635                .collect()
636        })
637        .collect();
638
639    if compact {
640        // Compact: cells joined by " | ", no padding, single-dash separators.
641        let render_row = |r: usize| -> String { format!("| {} |", grid[r].join(" | ")) };
642        let mut lines = Vec::with_capacity(grid.len() + 1);
643        lines.push(render_row(0));
644        let sep: Vec<&str> = (0..num_cols).map(|_| "-").collect();
645        lines.push(format!("| {} |", sep.join(" | ")));
646        for r in 1..grid.len() {
647            lines.push(render_row(r));
648        }
649        return lines.join("\n");
650    }
651
652    // Display width (Unicode scalar count — good enough for now).
653    let dw = |s: &str| s.chars().count();
654    let data_rows = 1..grid.len();
655
656    // A column is right-aligned when at least one data cell is numeric and every
657    // non-empty data cell is numeric — matching `tabulate`'s column typing, where
658    // empty cells are "missing" (ignored) and a number may carry thousands
659    // separators (`7,015`), which a plain `f64` parse rejects.
660    let right: Vec<bool> = (0..num_cols)
661        .map(|c| {
662            let mut any = false;
663            for r in data_rows.clone() {
664                let t = grid[r][c].trim();
665                if t.is_empty() {
666                    continue;
667                }
668                if !is_number_cell(t) {
669                    return false;
670                }
671                any = true;
672            }
673            any
674        })
675        .collect();
676
677    // Column width = max(header_width + MIN_PADDING(2), max data-cell width).
678    let width: Vec<usize> = (0..num_cols)
679        .map(|c| {
680            let mut w = dw(&grid[0][c]) + 2;
681            for r in data_rows.clone() {
682                w = w.max(dw(&grid[r][c]));
683            }
684            w
685        })
686        .collect();
687
688    let fmt_cell = |s: &str, c: usize| -> String {
689        let pad = " ".repeat(width[c].saturating_sub(dw(s)));
690        let body = if right[c] {
691            format!("{pad}{s}")
692        } else {
693            format!("{s}{pad}")
694        };
695        format!(" {body} ")
696    };
697    let render_row = |r: usize| -> String {
698        let cells: Vec<String> = (0..num_cols).map(|c| fmt_cell(&grid[r][c], c)).collect();
699        format!("|{}|", cells.join("|"))
700    };
701
702    let mut lines = Vec::with_capacity(grid.len() + 1);
703    lines.push(render_row(0));
704    let sep: Vec<String> = (0..num_cols).map(|c| "-".repeat(width[c] + 2)).collect();
705    lines.push(format!("|{}|", sep.join("|")));
706    for r in data_rows {
707        lines.push(render_row(r));
708    }
709    lines.join("\n")
710}
711
712/// Escape a table cell so it can't break the markdown table: newlines become
713/// spaces and pipes become the `&#124;` HTML entity (matches docling-core).
714fn escape_cell(s: &str) -> String {
715    s.replace('\n', " ").replace('|', "&#124;")
716}
717
718#[cfg(test)]
719mod tests {
720    use super::*;
721    use crate::PictureImage;
722
723    #[test]
724    fn renders_headings_paragraphs_and_lists() {
725        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("demo");
726        doc.add_heading(1, "Title");
727        doc.add_paragraph("Hello world.");
728        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
729            ordered: false,
730            number: 1,
731            first_in_list: true,
732            text: "first".into(),
733            level: 0,
734            marker: None,
735            location: None,
736            dclx: None,
737            href: None,
738            layer: None,
739        });
740        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
741            ordered: false,
742            number: 2,
743            first_in_list: false,
744            text: "second".into(),
745            level: 0,
746            marker: None,
747            location: None,
748            dclx: None,
749            href: None,
750            layer: None,
751        });
752        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
753        assert_eq!(md, "# Title\n\nHello world.\n\n- first\n- second\n");
754    }
755
756    #[test]
757    fn strict_renders_recovered_links_legacy_does_not() {
758        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("cv");
759        doc.add_paragraph("Find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.");
760        doc.links = vec![
761            ("LinkedIn".into(), "https://www.linkedin.com/in/x/".into()),
762            ("GitHub".into(), "https://github.com/x/".into()),
763        ];
764        // Legacy/docling mode: links are left untouched (conformance preserved).
765        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "Find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.\n");
766        // Strict mode: anchors become Markdown links.
767        assert_eq!(
768            doc.export_to_markdown_with(true),
769            "Find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/x/) or [GitHub](https://github.com/x/).\n"
770        );
771    }
772
773    #[test]
774    fn strict_links_match_escaped_anchor_and_consume_in_order() {
775        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
776        // The PDF assembler HTML-escapes prose, so by serialization time the body
777        // already carries `&amp;`; the anchor is stored un-escaped. The matcher must
778        // escape the anchor to find it. Two identical anchors link in document order.
779        doc.add_paragraph("AI &amp; ML here, and issues here, then issues there.");
780        doc.links = vec![
781            ("AI & ML".into(), "https://a/".into()),
782            ("issues".into(), "https://first/".into()),
783            ("issues".into(), "https://second/".into()),
784        ];
785        assert_eq!(
786            doc.export_to_markdown_with(true),
787            "[AI &amp; ML](https://a/) here, and [issues](https://first/) here, then [issues](https://second/) there.\n"
788        );
789    }
790
791    #[test]
792    fn renders_compact_table() {
793        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
794        // The compact form is opt-in (the PDF backend sets it); default output uses
795        // the padded GitHub serializer (covered by the regression fixtures).
796        doc.compact_tables = true;
797        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
798            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
799            location: None,
800            structure: None,
801            cell_blocks: None,
802            caption: None,
803        }));
804        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
805        assert_eq!(md, "| a | b |\n| - | - |\n| 1 | 2 |\n");
806    }
807
808    #[test]
809    fn renders_padded_github_table_by_default() {
810        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
811        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
812            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
813            location: None,
814            structure: None,
815            cell_blocks: None,
816            caption: None,
817        }));
818        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
819        // Numeric data columns are right-aligned; columns padded to header+2.
820        assert_eq!(md, "|   a |   b |\n|-----|-----|\n|   1 |   2 |\n");
821    }
822
823    #[test]
824    fn strict_unescapes_inline_underscores_legacy_keeps_them() {
825        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
826        doc.add_heading(1, "a\\_b");
827        doc.add_paragraph("x\\_y");
828        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
829            ordered: false,
830            number: 1,
831            first_in_list: true,
832            text: "i\\_j".into(),
833            level: 0,
834            marker: None,
835            location: None,
836            dclx: None,
837            href: None,
838            layer: None,
839        });
840        // Legacy reproduces docling's `\_` escaping byte-for-byte.
841        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "# a\\_b\n\nx\\_y\n\n- i\\_j\n");
842        // Strict prefers literal underscores (Rust-only readability mode).
843        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown_with(true), "# a_b\n\nx_y\n\n- i_j\n");
844    }
845
846    /// Drive a document's nodes through [`MarkdownStreamer`] in the given page
847    /// splits and assert the concatenated chunks equal the buffered serializer.
848    fn assert_stream_matches(
849        doc: &DoclingDocument,
850        strict: bool,
851        images: ImageMode,
852        splits: &[usize],
853    ) {
854        let (want, want_artifacts) = to_markdown_images(doc, strict, images, "artifacts");
855        let mut streamer =
856            MarkdownStreamer::with_artifacts(strict, images, doc.compact_tables, "artifacts");
857        let mut got = String::new();
858        let mut got_artifacts = Vec::new();
859        let mut start = 0;
860        for &end in splits {
861            // Links only matter in strict mode; feed them all with the first batch
862            // that has content (document order is preserved by the queue).
863            let links = if start == 0 {
864                doc.links.as_slice()
865            } else {
866                &[]
867            };
868            got.push_str(&streamer.push(&doc.nodes[start..end], links));
869            // Referenced mode: drain per push, as a real caller writing files
870            // page by page would — numbering must continue across drains.
871            got_artifacts.extend(streamer.take_artifacts());
872            start = end;
873        }
874        got.push_str(&streamer.push(
875            &doc.nodes[start..],
876            if start == 0 {
877                doc.links.as_slice()
878            } else {
879                &[]
880            },
881        ));
882        got_artifacts.extend(streamer.take_artifacts());
883        got.push_str(&streamer.finish());
884        assert_eq!(
885            got, want,
886            "streamed output diverged (splits={splits:?}, strict={strict})"
887        );
888        assert_eq!(
889            got_artifacts, want_artifacts,
890            "streamed artifacts diverged (splits={splits:?}, strict={strict})"
891        );
892    }
893
894    #[test]
895    fn streaming_is_byte_identical_to_buffered() {
896        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
897        doc.add_heading(1, "Title");
898        doc.add_paragraph("First paragraph.");
899        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
900            ordered: false,
901            number: 1,
902            first_in_list: true,
903            text: "a".into(),
904            level: 0,
905            marker: None,
906            location: None,
907            dclx: None,
908            href: None,
909            layer: None,
910        });
911        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
912            ordered: false,
913            number: 2,
914            first_in_list: false,
915            text: "b".into(),
916            level: 0,
917            marker: None,
918            location: None,
919            dclx: None,
920            href: None,
921            layer: None,
922        });
923        doc.push(Node::Code {
924            language: Some("rust".into()),
925            text: "let x = 1;".into(),
926            orig: None,
927        });
928        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
929            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
930            location: None,
931            structure: None,
932            cell_blocks: None,
933            caption: None,
934        }));
935        doc.push(Node::Picture {
936            caption: Some("Fig 1".into()),
937            image: Some(PictureImage {
938                mimetype: "image/png".into(),
939                width: 2,
940                height: 2,
941                data: b"png-one".to_vec(),
942            }),
943            classification: None,
944        });
945        doc.add_paragraph("Last paragraph.");
946        // A second embedded picture, so referenced mode must keep numbering
947        // (`image_000001`) across chunk boundaries.
948        doc.push(Node::Picture {
949            caption: None,
950            image: Some(PictureImage {
951                mimetype: "image/png".into(),
952                width: 2,
953                height: 2,
954                data: b"png-two".to_vec(),
955            }),
956            classification: None,
957        });
958
959        // A run of list items must never straddle a split, so try splits that fall
960        // on safe block boundaries (the streaming PDF assembler guarantees this).
961        for &strict in &[false, true] {
962            for &images in &[
963                ImageMode::Placeholder,
964                ImageMode::Embedded,
965                ImageMode::Referenced,
966            ] {
967                for splits in [&[][..], &[1][..], &[2][..], &[4][..], &[1, 4, 6, 7][..]] {
968                    assert_stream_matches(&doc, strict, images, splits);
969                }
970            }
971        }
972    }
973
974    #[test]
975    fn streaming_applies_recovered_links_in_strict_mode() {
976        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
977        doc.add_paragraph("See LinkedIn for details.");
978        doc.add_paragraph("And GitHub too.");
979        doc.links = vec![
980            ("LinkedIn".into(), "https://lnkd/".into()),
981            ("GitHub".into(), "https://gh/".into()),
982        ];
983        // The second anchor lives in the second block, so it must be carried across
984        // the page boundary and placed when that block streams out.
985        assert_stream_matches(&doc, true, ImageMode::Placeholder, &[1]);
986    }
987
988    #[test]
989    fn strict_tightens_punctuation_spacing_legacy_keeps_it() {
990        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
991        doc.add_paragraph("see [ 37 , 36 ] and ( x ) .");
992        // Legacy keeps docling's spacing byte-for-byte.
993        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "see [ 37 , 36 ] and ( x ) .\n");
994        // Strict tightens punctuation for readable Markdown.
995        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown_with(true), "see [37, 36] and (x).\n");
996    }
997}