Use DOMDocument for html parsing?

[cebe]

Use DOMDocument for html parsing?

[samdark]

While it may save significant amout of code, DOMDocument is proved to be not so stable and not so fast.

[cebe]

The class is quite big (though smaller than other things I've seen). For my taste, further splitting it up would be a good idea. But I did not look close enough to decide if this is possible.

I have plans using traits to split out some parts that are reused in other flavors. Have only done this for table support until now. In general it all belongs to the markdown flavor so it has to be in the class. splitting up is only useful if there is a real benefit.

About DOMTree:

are you suggesting to turn everything into HTML and use domtree to parse sub elements? Or use DOM only for the HTML parts in the markdown?
First thing does not work as this lib can also be used to transform markdown to some different languages like LaTeX for example. See https://github.com/cebe/markdown-latex

Using DOM to improve native HTML support could be an option. Current HTML support is not really good right now. Will check that out.

[cebe]

since this issue has been created the library has go an abstract syntax tree, not using DOM as it is not only HTML. Nothing to do here as far as I see.