JavaScript libraries for Markdown, Textile and others; Anchor references

Question

I need a javascript library to convert structured ascii text to html on the fly. I am especially interested in the following point:

Which library for structured text would support this or if it is not supported could be easily extended (i could write an extension)?

Can you make a suggestion for a good and simple syntax for structured ascii text for "in page links"?

<a href="#jumpend">jump to the end</a>
...some body text...
<a name="jumpend">this is the end</a>

I like the way links are written in "markdown", so how could the name anchor in a to be written extension be expressed in a nice way?

Which libraries do you know or can you recommend? Should be multi browser, good and easy to read and extend clean source code, actively maintained.

I am presently having a look at the JavaScript Markdown library "Showdown": http://attacklab.net/showdown/

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '09 at 01:55

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You might look into markItUp!

answered May 22 '09 at 01:55

TML

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I believe that markItUp relies on the server to do the parsing. – jbochi Dec 24 '09 at 20:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '09 at 10:28

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I think that you should not use markdown if you are looking for anchor references. Try the following Creole Wiki markup parsers:

answered Dec 28 '09 at 10:28

jbochi

You're welcome! Good to know it helped. If this is what you were looking for, don't forget to set the answer as accepted ;) – jbochi Jan 02 '10 at 16:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '13 at 15:28

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Textile hast a builtin "footnote" mechanism:

.. AJAX[1] ...

fn1. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ..

answered Jul 14 '13 at 15:28

jdlx

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