StackOverFlow's new markdown editor looks great. Take a look.
Instead of direct HTML conversion they use AST conversion. This makes it immensely reusable in other languages. Java, C#, C++, Python, etc. They have also begun the process of standardization.
CommonMark
commonmark
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commonmark.js
CommonMark parser and renderer in JavaScript
commonmark.js
CommonMark is a rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a spec and BSD-licensed reference implementations in C and JavaScript.
For more information, see http://commonmark.org.
This repository contains the JavaScript reference implementation It provides a library with functions for parsing CommonMark documents to an abstract syntax tree (AST), manipulating the AST, and rendering the document to HTML or to an XML representation of the AST.
To play with this library without installing it, see the live dingus at http://try.commonmark.org/.
Installing
You can install the library using npm:
npm install commonmark
This package includes the commonmark library and a
command-line executable, commonmark.
For client-side use, you can use one of the single-file
distributions provided in the dist/ subdirectory
of the node installation (node_modules/commonmark/dist/).
Use either commonmark.js (readable source) or
commonmark.min.js (minimized source).
Alternatively, bower install commonmark will install
the needed distribution files in
bower_components/commonmark/dist.
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