PriceTag

Who doesn't love themselves some light markup languages? As somebody writing with one as I type this very sentence, I am certainly a big fan.

Sure, the whole point of Markdown, Textile, and the like are to generate HTML, but what if you want to go the other way? To undo the horrible mistake of shackling your document in oppressive angled brackets, or perhaps share some love with markup that never knew the sweet embrace of concise, humanist syntax?

With PriceTag, such transformative experiences are just a simple line of code away:

html = <<-EOF
        <h1>Lorem Ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
       EOF
       
PriceTag.html_to_markdown(html)

Or if you're of the Textile persuasion:

PriceTag.html_to_textile(html)

You can customize aspects of a document's output by providing optional parameters to the html\_to\_* argument:

PriceTag.html_to_markdown(html, :heading_style => :setext, :link_style => :inline)

• link_style : markup style for a tags (default: reference)
  • reference -- link URLs are referenced as footnote
  • inline -- link URLs are displayed inline with element

There are language-specific options as well:

• heading_style : markup style for h1...h6 tags (default: atx)
  • atx -- Octothorps (#) next to heading
  • setext -- Equal signs or dashes (=/-) underneath headings (falls back to atx style for h3 and above)

• ignore_styles : Textile allows you to set attributes (id, class, lang, and CSS Styles) for inline elements. When set to true, this information will not be included in the output (default: true)

• Nokogiri 1.4+

1. Fork the project.
2. Make your feature addition or bug fix.
3. Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
4. Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
5. Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

PriceTag is licensed under the MIT License:

Copyright (c) 2010 Mattt Thompson (http://mattt.me/)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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