NEILB's Blog

I've done a first sketch review of modules for converting markdown to HTML. I'm currently using Text::Markdown in my blog engine, but would like to add some extensions, so I was wondering if any of the existing markdown modules provided an extension mechanism.

For most of the reviews I've done, I've not published a first version until I've done a pretty thorough evaluation. In this case I've just quickly tried each of the modules and compared them based on dependencies and performance.

Things still to do:

• a more thorough look for other modules
• try Gruber's testsuite with the modules
• perhaps come up with my own tests for correctness
• see how performance varies with size of files being processed.
• have a play with markdent, and see if I can work out the fragment processing approach
• maybe check UTF-8 handling?

Anything else?