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syzo  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Welcome rob05c! + more tag info

Wait hang on, I'm all confused. Is there a reason you can't just take an input, sanitize it, then lex+parse it like you would any other compiled thing (which Markdown is, markdown -> HTML), and spit out the HTML at the end? What's with this MD5 to escape some characters to "prevent double escaping"?

I have admittedly not looked much into markdown implementations, especially for forum-like sites like Reddit.