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

       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>

perl v5.22.1                                       2015-12-17                      Text::Markdown::Discount(3pm)