Text.Pandoc.Generic

pandoc-types-1.16.0.1: Types for representing a structured document

Copyright | Copyright (C) 2006-2010 John MacFarlane
License | GNU GPL, version 2 or above
Maintainer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Stability | alpha
Portability | portable
Safe Haskell | None
Language | Haskell98

Text.Pandoc.Generic

Description

Generic functions for manipulating `Pandoc` documents. (Note: the functions defined in `Text.Pandoc.Walk` should be used instead, when possible, as they are much faster.)

Here's a simple example, defining a function that replaces all the level 3+ headers in a document with regular paragraphs in ALL CAPS:

    import Text.Pandoc.Definition
    import Text.Pandoc.Generic
    import Data.Char (toUpper)

    modHeader :: Block -> Block
    modHeader (Header n _ xs) | n >= 3 = Para $ bottomUp allCaps xs
    modHeader x = x

    allCaps :: Inline -> Inline
    allCaps (Str xs) = Str $ map toUpper xs
    allCaps x = x

    changeHeaders :: Pandoc -> Pandoc
    changeHeaders = bottomUp modHeader

`bottomUp` is so called because it traverses the `Pandoc` structure from bottom up. `topDown` goes the other way. The difference between them can be seen from this example:

    normal :: [Inline] -> [Inline]
    normal (Space : Space : xs) = Space : xs
    normal (Emph xs : Emph ys : zs) = Emph (xs ++ ys) : zs
    normal xs = xs

    myDoc :: Pandoc
    myDoc =  Pandoc nullMeta
     [ Para [Str "Hi",Space,Emph [Str "world",Space],Emph [Space,Str "emphasized"]]]

Here we want to use `topDown` to lift `normal` to `Pandoc -> Pandoc`. The top down strategy will collapse the two adjacent `Emph`s first, then collapse the resulting adjacent `Space`s, as desired. If we used `bottomUp`, we would end up with two adjacent `Space`s, since the contents of the two `Emph` inlines would be processed before the `Emph`s were collapsed into one.

    topDown normal myDoc ==
      Pandoc nullMeta
       [Para [Str "Hi",Space,Emph [Str "world",Space,Str "emphasized"]]]

    bottomUp normal myDoc ==
      Pandoc nullMeta
       [Para [Str "Hi",Space,Emph [Str "world",Space,Space,Str "emphasized"]]]

`bottomUpM` is a monadic version of `bottomUp`. It could be used, for example, to replace the contents of delimited code blocks with attribute `include=FILENAME` with the contents of `FILENAME`:

    doInclude :: Block -> IO Block
    doInclude cb@(CodeBlock (id, classes, namevals) contents) =
      case lookup "include" namevals of
           Just f  -> return . (CodeBlock (id, classes, namevals)) =<< readFile f
           Nothing -> return cb
    doInclude x = return x

    processIncludes :: Pandoc -> IO Pandoc
    processIncludes = bottomUpM doInclude

`queryWith` can be used, for example, to compile a list of URLs linked to in a document:

    extractURL :: Inline -> [String]
    extractURL (Link _ (u,_)) = [u]
    extractURL (Image _ _ (u,_)) = [u]
    extractURL _ = []

    extractURLs :: Pandoc -> [String]
    extractURLs = queryWith extractURL

Synopsis

- bottomUp :: (Data a, Data b) => (a -> a) -> b -> b
- topDown :: (Data a, Data b) => (a -> a) -> b -> b
- bottomUpM :: (Monad m, Data a, Data b) => (a -> m a) -> b -> m b
- queryWith :: (Data a, Monoid b, Data c) => (a -> b) -> c -> b

# Documentation

bottomUp :: (Data a, Data b) => (a -> a) -> b -> b

Applies a transformation on `a`s to matching elements in a `b`, moving from the bottom of the structure up.

topDown :: (Data a, Data b) => (a -> a) -> b -> b

Applies a transformation on `a`s to matching elements in a `b`, moving from the top of the structure down.

bottomUpM :: (Monad m, Data a, Data b) => (a -> m a) -> b -> m b

Like `bottomUp`, but with monadic transformations.

queryWith :: (Data a, Monoid b, Data c) => (a -> b) -> c -> b

Runs a query on matching `a` elements in a `c`. The results of the queries are combined using `mappend`.