Hi,
I think not. When I hear Markdown processor I think of a specialized word/text
processor (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor) which is more an
application that helps you write stuff and print it, eventually export it to
html. If you were to write an application that helps you write documents (e.g.:
insert list, quote etc. via buttons/commands) and use Markdown as the
underlying format would be a Markdown processor. If you would write an
application that translates a Markdown document to html, that would be a
Markdown translator and the whole process would be called translation (or
Markdown to Html Translation). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation.
For me, Markdown implementation sounds a bit odd. Markdown is not standardized
nor is its specification clear enough to draw a deterministic procedure for
translating Markdown into html (or an Abstract Syntax Tree). You cannot say
that there are multiple Markdown implementations if they do not yield the same
output for any given input (if you would then I could swap implementations
however I wish and get the same result).
I’d simply name the specification (or flavour) and append “Translator” at the
end (e.g.: Github flavoured Markdown Translator, Common Markdown Translator
etc.). That way it’s all clear what specification is used and what the intent
of the application is. The real working horse behind a translator is a parser,
once you have that you can pretty much do anything else. Saying that you have a
Markdown parser is almost the same as saying that you have a Markdown
translator, the remaining effort is close to a days work if you want to make it
really fancy.
Andrei Fangli
From: Sean Leonard
Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2014 02:55
To: markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net
Hello Markdown World,
Last month draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type was adopted by the
IETF Apps Area Working Group (APPSAWG). I am working on revising it.
I am trying to use uniform terms. An implementation that converts
Markdown content to another format--most typically HTML--is called...a
Markdown processor, right?
I have been using the term "Markdown processor". Just want to see if
there is substantial disagreement about using that term to refer to the
collective set of Markdown implementations out there.
Thanks,
Sean
PS I suppose it could also be called a "Markdown implementation". But
I'm going to stick to my original nomenclature in the absence of a push
for something else. For instance, graphical tools such as [MarkdownPad]
may be implementations of Markdown, but they are not processors.
MarkdownPad is a Markdown editor, that has built-in support for various
Markdown processors (such as a GitHub Flavored Markdown processor, and a
Markdown Extra processor).
[MarkdownPad]: http://markdownpad.com/
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