Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
What would be a good way to extract headlines, dates, and authors from news articles? It seems easy to write a scraper using xpath or similar to extract this information from a single site, but I'm not sure of a more scalable solution if you're extracting from say 10,000 sites.
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax
jemdoc is a light text-based markup language designed for creating websites. It takes a text file written with jemdoc markup, an optional configuration file and an optional menu file, and makes static websites that look something like this one, that one or another one.
jemdoc was inspired by AsciiDoc, which is a text document format. AsciiDoc is great, and lots of the ideas from AsciiDoc are copied in jemdoc. The main differences are that jemdoc is simpler (you could say deliberately feature poor) and has more consistent syntax.