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A Clojure library to parse text/gemini. It uses a format similar to hiccup to represent documents, and provides a function to convert gemtext' hiccup to "usual" HTML-hiccup.

Usage

(require '[gemtext.core :as gemtext])

This library uses a "hiccup"-like notation, where a parsed document is represented as a sequence of vector in the form [tag body] or [tag attr body]. Unlike the usual hiccup, attr is always a string and not a map, since text/gemini doesn't have the concept of "attributes." Every vector represents one line of the original input, except for the :pre which has as body the whole preformatted block.

The supported tags are:

  • :header-1 to header-3 for the headings
  • :item for the item-line
  • :quote for the quotation line
  • :link for the hyperlinks facility
  • :pre for the preformatted blocks
  • :text for the plain lines

Yes, "preformatted blocks" is a bit of a stretch, since the text/gemini specification calls them "toggle markers", but I believe it's more intuitive to consider them as a block, even if slightly improper.

Only :pre and :link have the two-airity array, i.e. [:pre "descr" "content"] and [:link "url" "descr"], all the other "tags" have only a single body.

Why don't re-use the same HTML tag? i.e. :p, :h1, :li etc

text/gemini is not 1-to-1 with HTML. For example, what HTML calls a "list item" is not exactly a "item line" in text/gemini. Using different names ensures that we don't end up mistaking one kind of document with the other. Said that, I'm a bit tempted to rename :header-1 to :h1...

Documentation

parser is a transducer that takes text/gemini lines and produces hiccup. It's useful if you already have a pipeline and/or want to parse a (possibly infinite) stream of text/gemini.

user=> (transduce gemtext/parser conj [] '("# hello world"))
[[:header-1 "hello world"]]

parse is function that parses the given thing. It's a multimethod, and default implementations are given for strings, sequences (of string) and java readers.

user=> (gemtext/parse "some\nlines\nof\ntext")
[[:text "some"] [:text "lines"] [:text "of"] [:text "text"]]

user=> (gemtext/parse (repeat 3 "* test"))
[[:item "test"] [:item "test"] [:item "test"]]

unparse is the complement of parse: transforms a hiccup data structure back to a string.

user=> (gemtext/unparse [[:link "/foo" "A link"]])
"=> /foo A link\n"

to-hiccup converts gemtext hiccup to "classical" (i.e. HTML) hiccup, so it's easier to integrate with other libraries, or to further convert to HTML.

user=> (gemtext/to-hiccup [[:header-1 "text/gemini"] [:text "..."]])
[[:h1 "text/gemini"] [:p "..."]]

Caveats

(comp gemtext/unparse gemtext/parse) is not an identity function, some bits of information are lost during the parsing; however the output is fundamentally equivalent to the input:

user=> ((comp gemtext/unparse gemtext/parse) "#hello world")
"# hello world\n"

Development

Run the tests with

./bin/kaocha

License

Copyright © 2021 Omar Polo, all rights reserved.

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

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