goldmark
A Markdown parser written in Go. Easy to extend, standards-compliant, well-structured.
goldmark is compliant with CommonMark 0.29.
Motivation
I needed a Markdown parser for Go that satisfies the following requirements:
- Easy to extend.
- Markdown is poor in document expressions compared to other light markup languages such as reStructuredText.
- We have extensions to the Markdown syntax, e.g. PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub Flavored Markdown.
- Standards-compliant.
- Markdown has many dialects.
- GitHub-Flavored Markdown is widely used and is based upon CommonMark, effectively mooting the question of whether or not CommonMark is an ideal specification.
- CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement.
- Well-structured.
- AST-based; preserves source position of nodes.
- Written in pure Go.
golang-commonmark may be a good choice, but it seems to be a copy of markdown-it.
blackfriday.v2 is a fast and widely-used implementation, but is not CommonMark-compliant and cannot be extended from outside of the package, since its AST uses structs instead of interfaces.
Furthermore, its behavior differs from other implementations in some cases, especially regarding lists: Deep nested lists don't output correctly #329, List block cannot have a second line #244, etc.
This behavior sometimes causes problems. If you migrate your Markdown text from GitHub to blackfriday-based wikis, many lists will immediately be broken.
As mentioned above, CommonMark is complicated and hard to implement, so Markdown parsers based on CommonMark are few and far between.
Features
- Standards-compliant. goldmark is fully compliant with the latest CommonMark specification.
- Extensible. Do you want to add a
@usernamemention syntax to Markdown? You can easily do so in goldmark. You can add your AST nodes, parsers for block-level elements, parsers for inline-level elements, transformers for paragraphs, transformers for the whole AST structure, and renderers. - Performance. goldmark's performance is on par with that of cmark, the CommonMark reference implementation written in C.
- Robust. goldmark is tested with go-fuzz, a fuzz testing tool.
- Built-in extensions. goldmark ships with common extensions like tables, strikethrough, task lists, and definition lists.
- Depends only on standard libraries.
Installation
$ go get github.com/yuin/goldmark
Usage
Import packages:
import (
"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
)
Convert Markdown documents with the CommonMark-compliant mode:
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
With options
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := goldmark.Convert(source, &buf, parser.WithContext(ctx)); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
parser.WithContext |
A parser.Context |
Context for the parsing phase. |
Context options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
parser.WithIDs |
A parser.IDs |
IDs allows you to change logics that are related to element id(ex: Auto heading id generation). |
Custom parser and renderer
import (
"bytes"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/extension"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/parser"
"github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html"
)
md := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(extension.GFM),
goldmark.WithParserOptions(
parser.WithAutoHeadingID(),
),
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithHardWraps(),
html.WithXHTML(),
),
)
var buf bytes.Buffer
if err := md.Convert(source, &buf); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
goldmark.WithParser |
parser.Parser |
This option must be passed before goldmark.WithParserOptions and goldmark.WithExtensions |
goldmark.WithRenderer |
renderer.Renderer |
This option must be passed before goldmark.WithRendererOptions and goldmark.WithExtensions |
goldmark.WithParserOptions |
...parser.Option |
|
goldmark.WithRendererOptions |
...renderer.Option |
|
goldmark.WithExtensions |
...goldmark.Extender |
Parser and Renderer options
Parser options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
parser.WithBlockParsers |
A util.PrioritizedSlice whose elements are parser.BlockParser |
Parsers for parsing block level elements. |
parser.WithInlineParsers |
A util.PrioritizedSlice whose elements are parser.InlineParser |
Parsers for parsing inline level elements. |
parser.WithParagraphTransformers |
A util.PrioritizedSlice whose elements are parser.ParagraphTransformer |
Transformers for transforming paragraph nodes. |
parser.WithASTTransformers |
A util.PrioritizedSlice whose elements are parser.ASTTransformer |
Transformers for transforming an AST. |
parser.WithAutoHeadingID |
- |
Enables auto heading ids. |
parser.WithAttribute |
- |
Enables custom attributes. Currently only headings supports attributes. |
HTML Renderer options
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
html.WithWriter |
html.Writer |
html.Writer for writing contents to an io.Writer. |
html.WithHardWraps |
- |
Render newlines as |
html.WithXHTML |
- |
Render as XHTML. |
html.WithUnsafe |
- |
By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially dangerous links. With this option, goldmark renders such content as written. |
Built-in extensions
extension.Tableextension.Strikethroughextension.Linkifyextension.TaskListextension.GFM- This extension enables Table, Strikethrough, Linkify and TaskList.
- This extension does not filter tags defined in 6.11: Disallowed Raw HTML (extension). If you need to filter HTML tags, see Security.
- If you need to parse github emojis, you can use goldmark-emoji extension.
extension.DefinitionListextension.Footnoteextension.Typographer- This extension substitutes punctuations with typographic entities like smartypants.
Attributes
The parser.WithAttribute option allows you to define attributes on some elements.
Currently only headings support attributes.
Attributes are being discussed in the CommonMark forum. This syntax may possibly change in the future.
Headings
## heading ## {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
## heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue class="class1 class2"}
heading {#id .className attrName=attrValue}
============
Table extension
The Table extension implements Table(extension), as defined in GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec.
Specs are defined for XHTML, so specs use some deprecated attributes for HTML5.
You can override alignment rendering method via options.
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
extension.WithTableCellAlignMethod |
extension.TableCellAlignMethod |
Option indicates how are table cells aligned. |
Typographer extension
The Typographer extension translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into typographic-punctuation HTML entities.
Default substitutions are:
| Punctuation | Default entity |
|---|---|
' |
‘, ’ |
" |
“, ” |
-- |
– |
--- |
— |
... |
… |
<< |
« |
>> |
» |
You can override the default substitutions via extensions.WithTypographicSubstitutions:
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewTypographer(
extension.WithTypographicSubstitutions(extension.TypographicSubstitutions{
extension.LeftSingleQuote: []byte("‚"),
extension.RightSingleQuote: nil, // nil disables a substitution
}),
),
),
)
Linkify extension
The Linkify extension implements Autolinks(extension), as defined in GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec.
Since the spec does not define details about URLs, there are numerous ambiguous cases.
You can override autolinking patterns via options.
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols |
[][]byte |
List of allowed protocols such as [][]byte{ []byte("http:") } |
extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp |
*regexp.Regexp |
Regexp that defines URLs, including protocols |
extension.WithLinkifyWWWRegexp |
*regexp.Regexp |
Regexp that defines URL starting with www.. This pattern corresponds to the extended www autolink |
extension.WithLinkifyEmailRegexp |
*regexp.Regexp |
Regexp that defines email addresses` |
Example, using xurls:
import "mvdan.cc/xurls/v2"
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithRendererOptions(
html.WithXHTML(),
html.WithUnsafe(),
),
goldmark.WithExtensions(
extension.NewLinkify(
extension.WithLinkifyAllowedProtocols([][]byte{
[]byte("http:"),
[]byte("https:"),
}),
extension.WithLinkifyURLRegexp(
xurls.Strict,
),
),
),
)
Footnotes extension
The Footnote extension implements PHP Markdown Extra: Footnotes.
This extension has some options:
| Functional option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefix |
[]byte |
a prefix for the id attributes. |
extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefixFunction |
func(gast.Node) []byte |
a function that determines the id attribute for given Node. |
extension.WithFootnoteLinkTitle |
[]byte |
an optional title attribute for footnote links. |
extension.WithFootnoteBacklinkTitle |
[]byte |
an optional title attribute for footnote backlinks. |
extension.WithFootnoteLinkClass |
[]byte |
a class for footnote links. This defaults to footnote-ref. |
extension.WithFootnoteBacklinkClass |
[]byte |
a class for footnote backlinks. This defaults to footnote-backref. |
extension.WithFootnoteBacklinkHTML |
[]byte |
a class for footnote backlinks. This defaults to ↩︎. |
Some options can have special substitutions. Occurances of “^^” in the string will be replaced by the corresponding footnote number in the HTML output. Occurances of “%%” will be replaced by a number for the reference (footnotes can have multiple references).
extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefix and extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefixFunction are useful if you have multiple Markdown documents displayed inside one HTML document to avoid footnote ids to clash each other.
extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefix sets fixed id prefix, so you may write codes like the following:
for _, path := range files {
source := readAll(path)
prefix := getPrefix(path)
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(
NewFootnote(
WithFootnoteIDPrefix([]byte(path)),
),
),
)
var b bytes.Buffer
err := markdown.Convert(source, &b)
if err != nil {
t.Error(err.Error())
}
}
extension.WithFootnoteIDPrefixFunction determines an id prefix by calling given function, so you may write codes like the following:
markdown := goldmark.New(
goldmark.WithExtensions(
NewFootnote(
WithFootnoteIDPrefixFunction(func(n gast.Node) []byte {
v, ok := n.OwnerDocument().Meta()["footnote-prefix"]
if ok {
return util.StringToReadOnlyBytes(v.(string))
}
return nil
}),
),
),
)
for _, path := range files {
source := readAll(path)
var b bytes.Buffer
doc := markdown.Parser().Parse(text.NewReader(source))
doc.Meta()["footnote-prefix"] = getPrefix(path)
err := markdown.Renderer().Render(&b, source, doc)
}
You can use goldmark-meta to define a id prefix in the markdown document:
---
title: document title
slug: article1
footnote-prefix: article1
---
# My article
Security
By default, goldmark does not render raw HTML or potentially-dangerous URLs. If you need to gain more control over untrusted contents, it is recommended that you use an HTML sanitizer such as bluemonday.
Benchmark
You can run this benchmark in the _benchmark directory.
against other golang libraries
blackfriday v2 seems to be the fastest, but as it is not CommonMark compliant, its performance cannot be directly compared to that of the CommonMark-compliant libraries.
goldmark, meanwhile, builds a clean, extensible AST structure, achieves full compliance with CommonMark, and consumes less memory, all while being reasonably fast.
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
BenchmarkMarkdown/Blackfriday-v2-12 326 3465240 ns/op 3298861 B/op 20047 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoldMark-12 303 3927494 ns/op 2574809 B/op 13853 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/CommonMark-12 244 4900853 ns/op 2753851 B/op 20527 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/Lute-12 130 9195245 ns/op 9175030 B/op 123534 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarkdown/GoMarkdown-12 9 113541994 ns/op 2187472 B/op 22173 allocs/op
against cmark (CommonMark reference implementation written in C)
----------- cmark -----------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0037760639 sec
go run ./goldmark_benchmark.go
------- goldmark -------
file: _data.md
iteration: 50
average: 0.0040964230 sec
As you can see, goldmark's performance is on par with cmark's.
Extensions
- goldmark-meta: A YAML metadata extension for the goldmark Markdown parser.
- goldmark-highlighting: A syntax-highlighting extension for the goldmark markdown parser.
- goldmark-emoji: An emoji extension for the goldmark Markdown parser.
- goldmark-mathjax: Mathjax support for the goldmark markdown parser
goldmark internal(for extension developers)
Overview
goldmark's Markdown processing is outlined in the diagram below.
|
V
+-------- parser.Parser ---------------------------
| 1. Parse block elements into AST
| 1. If a parsed block is a paragraph, apply
| ast.ParagraphTransformer
| 2. Traverse AST and parse blocks.
| 1. Process delimiters(emphasis) at the end of
| block parsing
| 3. Apply parser.ASTTransformers to AST
|
V
|
V
+------- renderer.Renderer ------------------------
| 1. Traverse AST and apply renderer.NodeRenderer
| corespond to the node type
|
V
Parsing
Markdown documents are read through text.Reader interface.
AST nodes do not have concrete text. AST nodes have segment information of the documents, represented by text.Segment .
text.Segment has 3 attributes: Start, End, Padding .
(TBC)
TODO
See extension directory for examples of extensions.
Summary:
- Define AST Node as a struct in which
ast.BaseBlockorast.BaseInlineis embedded. - Write a parser that implements
parser.BlockParserorparser.InlineParser. - Write a renderer that implements
renderer.NodeRenderer. - Define your goldmark extension that implements
goldmark.Extender.
Donation
BTC: 1NEDSyUmo4SMTDP83JJQSWi1MvQUGGNMZB
License
MIT
Author
Yusuke Inuzuka
