Comments on C for Coding: More Details on JMD Markdown Parsing

Just came over your post here, I think you should ...

2010-05-02T18:52:51.654+08:00

Just came over your post here, I think you should take a look at "pegdown" (http://github.com/sirthias/pegdown), a newly release open-source Java library pretty much doing exactly what you are planning:
Proper Markdown processing without regular expressions but rather an actual parser. In the case of pegdown it's a PEG parser built with "parboiled" (http://github.com/sirthias/parboiled), another relatively new Java approach to parsing.
The PEG grammar underlying pegdown stems largely from John MacFarlanes "peg-markup" implemented in C and also available on GitHub...

Well, yes and no. There are steps in the regex par...

2010-01-14T07:54:23.907+08:00

Well, yes and no. There are steps in the regex parsing of, say, escaping and unescaping special characters. I would count these as passes.

a lot of it boils down to doing one "pass" over th...

2010-01-14T00:02:25.495+08:00

a lot of it boils down to doing one "pass" over the input text instead of dozens to hundreds, as the regex-based solution does.