md_metadata_parser

md YAML metada parser

Motivation

md_metadata_parser insert YAML metadata as Markdown comment.

You can hide metadata to the render consumer, and use the same .md file to store data for later processing - consumption.

md_metadata_parser can parse from md to json and vice versa.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage

• Example
• API
  • parseMd2Json({'mdData', ...});
  • parseJson2Md({'json', ...});
• Structure
  • 1. Node tag
  • 2. Metadata tag
  • 3. Content tag
  • 4. Children tag
  • md structure example
  • json (parsed from md👆) structure example
  • License

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Installation

$ npm install --save md_metadata_parser

Usage

const mdMetadataParser = require('md_metadata_parser');

var mdData = fs.readFileSync("md_path.md", "utf8");

// parse the md file to json object
var resultTree = mdMetadataParser.parseMd2Json({ mdData });

// parse the json object to md
var outputMD = mdMetadataParser.parseJson2Md({ rootNode: resultTree });

Example

See https://github.com/balmacefa/md_metadata_parser/blob/main/test/index.test.js

API

parseMd2Json({'mdData', ...});

parse the md data to json format

parseJson2Md({'json', ...});

parse the md data to json format

Structure

There are 4 tags for describe the data Structure

1. Node tag

md: <!-- __NODE_START__ -->

This will be the json object container, all the others tags have to be inside,

Everything outside will be ignored.

md: <!-- __NODE_END__ -->

2. Metadata tag

md: <!-- __meta_start__

This will be parse as YAML

YAML.parse( content_inside_this_tag )

json attribute: "metadata"

__meta_end__ -->

3. Content tag

md: <!-- __content_start__ -->

This the render md content

json attribute: "content"

md: <!-- __content_end__ -->

4. Children tag

md: <!-- __children_start__ -->

Array of Node tag ( recursive )

json attribute: "children"

md: <!-- __children_end__ -->

Structure example

md

<!-- __NODE_START__  -->
<!-- __meta_start__
id: 1
description: 1111
date: 2020-12-23T22:38:58.000Z

__meta_end__ -->

<!-- __content_start__ -->
# Content 1
Content 1
<!-- __content_end__ -->

<!-- __children_start__ -->

      <!-- __NODE_START__  -->
      <!-- __meta_start__
      id: 01a
      description: 1a
      
      __meta_end__ -->
      <!-- __content_start__ -->
      Content 1a
      <!-- __content_end__ -->
      
      <!-- __NODE_END__  -->

<!-- __children_end__ -->

<!-- __NODE_END__  -->


<!-- __NODE_START__  -->
<!-- __meta_start__
id: 2
description: 2222

__meta_end__ -->

<!-- __content_start__ -->
## Content 2
Content 2
<!-- __content_end__ -->

<!-- __NODE_END__  -->

json

(parsed from md👆)

[
  {
    "metadata": {
      "id": 1,
      "description": 1111,
    },
    "content": "# Content 1\nContent 1",
    "children": [
      {
        "metadata": { "id": "01a", "description": "1a" },
        "content": "Content 1a"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "metadata": { "id": 2, "description": 2222 },
    "content": "## Content 2\nContent 2"
  },
]

License

MIT © balmacefa