Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Can the 'meta' extension output an unchanged body minus metadata?

[Waylan L. <way...@ic...>]

I can't imagine how this would be useful. Isn't the point of the 
markdown parser to parse markdown and get html? If you want to do some 
preprocessing before passing your text into markdown, then my suggestion 
would be to do the preprocessing before passing the text into markdown. 
If that means reimplementing your own metadata processor, then that is 
probably what you should do. For instance, a static site generator may 
do this so it can allow the markup language of the document to be 
defined in the metadata. In such a situation, Python-Markdown's Metedata 
extension would not be the tool for the job.

Waylan

On 1/28/2014 7:03:37 PM, "Ian G. Jeffries" <ia...@ho...> 
wrote:

>Hey folks,
>
>I'd like to use the 'meta' extension to get a Python string which 
>consists of the body of the post without the metadata, but otherwise 
>unchanged.
>
>I've got my own code to do this which works fine, but I was wondering 
>if there was a built-in option to do this that I missed. If not would 
>it be a good thing to have added?
>
>Cheers!
>
>Ian Jeffries