[TxMt] MultiMarkdown in TextMate

[Brad Miller]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

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> On 12 Apr 2006, at 20:02, Brad Miller wrote:
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>> When the document is in MultiMarkdown mode ctrl-shift-m tries to  
>> run the command 'convert to markdown.'  Not preview in browser.   
>> Now that I look at it carefully I'm not sure who wrote that  
>> command or what it is supposed to do.  MultiMarkdown does not  
>> include a file called markdown.xsl as far as I can tell.
>>
>> ??Anyone??
>>
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> Dear Brad,
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> markdown.xsl[1] converts xhtml to markdown syntax. The comments:
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>> # This command works well when you use the TextMate service from a
>> # web-log editor like Ecto or MarsEdit.  You can write in markdown
>> # and then convert back to html before save and close.
>
> provide the rationale for both the Convert to html and Convert to  
> markdown commands. Not my usage case, but there are other  
> legitimate uses for this, I think---if you wanted to feed an xhtml  
> doc into your markdown based workflow, say.
>
> All the best, Mark

Thanks Mark,

After I sent the email I did some more investigating and I actually  
added that command to my original bundle experimentally.  I could  
never get it to work, and in the meantime the markdown.xsl file was  
lost in the shuffle.

In looking at it again this afternoon I can get the command to work  
under the following conditions:

1. remove the -novalid and -nonet command line arguments to xsltproc
2. feed the command a valid xhtml document

Without that, the html in the document just disappears.

Is this a useful command to keep around?  You can also get the same  
functionality from the Humane Text service.

Brad

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> [1] http://www.lowerelement.com/Geekery/XML/XHTML-to-Markdown.html
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