NAME

       Text::Markdown::Discount - fast function for converting markdown to HTML (requires C
       compiler)

SYNOPSIS

         use Text::Markdown::Discount;
         my $html = markdown($text)

DESCRIPTION

       Text::Markdown::Discount is a perl interface to the "Discount" library, a C implementation
       of John Gruber's "markdown".

       It is the fastest of the Perl modules available for converting markdown: see the list in
       "SEE ALSO".  It passes Gruber's Markdown testsuite.

       Given that the performance of Discount, Text::Markdown::Discount processes markdown
       formatted text quickly and passes the Markdown test suite at
       <http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/MarkdownTest_1.0.zip>

       The interface of the "markdown()" function in this module is not compatible with the
       "markdown()" function in Text::Markdown.

   EXPORT
       markdown is exported by default.

   FUNCTION
       "Text::Markdown::Discount::with_html5_tags()"
           This function enables html5 block-level elements support.
           "Text::Markdown::Discount::markdown()" will handle these html5 tags as block elements:
           aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section, article.

           NOTE: There is no way to disable/re-enable this feature in one process right now.

             use Text::Markdown::Discount;
             Text::Markdown::Discount::with_html5_tags();
             my $html = markdown('<article>content</article>');
             #
             # In $html, <article> tag won't be wrapped with <p> tag

SEE ALSO

       There are other modules on CPAN for converting Markdown:

       •   Text::Markdown is a pure-perl markdown converter.

       •   Markdent is a toolkit for parsing markdown, which can also be used to convert markdown
           to HTML.

       •   Text::Markup is a converter than can handle a number of input formats, including
           markdown.

       •   Text::MultiMarkdown converts MultiMarkdown (a superset of the original markdown
           format) to HTML.

       Additional markdown resources:

       •   Discount <http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/> - David Loren Parsons's
           library for converting markdown, written in C.

       •   Markdown definition <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/> - John Gruber's
           original definition of the markdown format.

       •   Markdown testsuite <http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/MarkdownTest_1.0.zip>
           - John Gruber's testsuite for markdown.

       •   Markdown modules <http://neilb.org/reviews/markdown.html> - a review of all Perl
           modules for handling markdown, written by Neil Bowers.

AUTHOR

       Masayoshi Sekimura, <sekimura@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2013 by Masayoshi Sekimura

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of
       Perl 5 you may have available.

       This product includes software developed by David Loren Parsons
       <http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc>