mdast-util-to-nlcst
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mdast utility to transform markdown into nlcst, while keeping location information intact.
In plain English: this enables natural-language tooling to read markdown as input.
Note The interface is pretty rough. But in the future this will be built into mdast/retext, something called “bridging”, so you won’t have to use this library manually in the future :smile:!
npm:
npm install mdast-util-to-nlcst
mdast-util-to-nlcst is also available for bower, component, and duo, and as an AMD, CommonJS, and globals module, uncompressed and compressed.
/*
* Dependencies.
*/
var mdast = require('mdast');
var toNLCST = require('mdast-util-to-nlcst');
/*
* Process.
*/
mdast.process('Some *foo*s-_ball_.', function (err, doc, file) {
toNLCST(file);
console.log(file.namespace('retext').cst);
/*
* Yields:
*
* Object
* ├─ type: "RootNode"
* ├─ position: Object
* | └─ start: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 1
* | | └─ offset: 0
* | └─ end: Object
* | ├─ line: 1
* | ├─ column: 20
* | └─ offset: 19
* └─ children: Array[1]
* └─ 0: Object
* ├─ type: "ParagraphNode"
* ├─ position: Object
* | └─ start: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 1
* | | └─ offset: 0
* | └─ end: Object
* | ├─ line: 1
* | ├─ column: 20
* | └─ offset: 19
* └─ children: Array[1]
* └─ 0: Object
* ├─ type: "SentenceNode"
* ├─ position: Object
* | └─ start: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 1
* | | └─ offset: 0
* | └─ end: Object
* | ├─ line: 1
* | ├─ column: 20
* | └─ offset: 19
* └─ children: Array[4]
* ├─ 0: Object
* | ├─ type: "WordNode"
* | ├─ position: Object
* | | └─ start: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 1
* | | | └─ offset: 0
* | | └─ end: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 5
* | | └─ offset: 4
* | └─ children: Array[1]
* | └─ 0: Object
* | ├─ type: "TextNode"
* | ├─ position: Object
* | | └─ start: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 1
* | | | └─ offset: 0
* | | └─ end: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 5
* | | └─ offset: 4
* | └─ value: "Some"
* ├─ 1: Object
* | ├─ type: "WhiteSpaceNode"
* | ├─ position: Object
* | | └─ start: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 5
* | | | └─ offset: 4
* | | └─ end: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 6
* | | └─ offset: 5
* | └─ value: " "
* ├─ 2: Object
* | ├─ type: "WordNode"
* | ├─ position: Object
* | | └─ start: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 7
* | | | └─ offset: 6
* | | └─ end: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 18
* | | └─ offset: 17
* | └─ children: Array[4]
* | ├─ 0: Object
* | | ├─ type: "TextNode"
* | | ├─ position: Object
* | | | └─ start: Object
* | | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | | ├─ column: 7
* | | | | └─ offset: 6
* | | | └─ end: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 10
* | | | └─ offset: 9
* | | └─ value: "foo"
* | ├─ 1: Object
* | | ├─ type: "TextNode"
* | | ├─ position: Object
* | | | └─ start: Object
* | | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | | ├─ column: 11
* | | | | └─ offset: 10
* | | | └─ end: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 12
* | | | └─ offset: 11
* | | └─ value: "s"
* | ├─ 2: Object
* | | ├─ type: "PunctuationNode"
* | | ├─ position: Object
* | | | └─ start: Object
* | | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | | ├─ column: 12
* | | | | └─ offset: 11
* | | | └─ end: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 13
* | | | └─ offset: 12
* | | └─ value: "-"
* | └─ 3: Object
* | ├─ type: "TextNode"
* | ├─ position: Object
* | | └─ start: Object
* | | | ├─ line: 1
* | | | ├─ column: 14
* | | | └─ offset: 13
* | | └─ end: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 18
* | | └─ offset: 17
* | └─ value: "ball"
* └─ 3: Object
* ├─ type: "PunctuationNode"
* ├─ position: Object
* | └─ start: Object
* | | ├─ line: 1
* | | ├─ column: 19
* | | └─ offset: 18
* | └─ end: Object
* | ├─ line: 1
* | ├─ column: 20
* | └─ offset: 19
* └─ value: "."
*/
});
Transform a by mdast processed virtual file into an file ready for processing by retext.
Parameters:
file (File)
— Virtual file, must be passed through
parse().
parser (Function or Parser, default: new ParseLatin(), optional)
— You can pass the (constructor of) an NLCST parser, such as
parse-english or
parse-dutch, the default is
parse-latin.
Returns:
FAQs
mdast utility to transform to nlcst
The npm package mdast-util-to-nlcst receives a total of 93,186 weekly downloads. As such, mdast-util-to-nlcst popularity was classified as popular.
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