What is retext-stringify?
The retext-stringify package is a plugin for the retext ecosystem that serializes a syntax tree into a string. It is typically used in conjunction with other retext plugins to process natural language text and then convert the processed syntax tree back into a string format.
What are retext-stringify's main functionalities?
Basic Stringify
This code demonstrates the basic usage of retext-stringify. It processes a simple English sentence and converts the resulting syntax tree back into a string.
const retext = require('retext');
const stringify = require('retext-stringify');
const english = require('retext-english');
const report = require('vfile-reporter');
retext()
.use(english)
.use(stringify)
.process('This is a simple example.', function (err, file) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(String(file));
console.error(report(file));
});
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remark-stringify
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mdast-util-to-string
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retext-stringify

Compiler for unified. Stringifies an
nlcst syntax tree to text. Used in the retext
processor.
Installation
npm:
npm install retext-stringify
Usage
var unified = require('unified');
var english = require('retext-english');
var stringify = require('retext-stringify');
var emoji = require('retext-emoji');
process.stdin
.pipe(unified())
.use(english)
.use(emoji, {convert: 'encode'})
.use(stringify)
.pipe(process.stdout);
Table of Contents
API
processor.use(stringify)
Configure the processor
to stringify nlcst syntax trees
to text.
There is no configuration for the parser.
License
MIT © Titus Wormer