[Python-markdown-discuss] Assistance getting started with custom parsing.

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I am working on creating a custom extension to parse markdown into Reveal.js
<http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/> slides. I understand that Reveal.js
already understands markdown, but I want to parse additional custom syntax
that I already generated, thus I want to convert to html directly.

Has anyone done something similar or can someone provide me with a similar
example? I am just looking for something to kick me in the proper
direction, I have created custom pattern extensions but I believe I will
need a BlockProcessor or possibly a Preprocessor to do this.

In short, I need to convert the demo.md to the demo.html shown below, which
simply requires the delimiter (!---) to mark the location of a <section>
break. Any help pointing me in the correct direction would be greatly
appreciated.

---demo.md--------------------------------------------------------------
Slide 1

* Item 1
* Item 2

!---

Slide 2

Some thing really import
goes here, with custom markdown syntax.

!---

Slide 3

```python
for i in range(10):
    print i
```

This needs to be converted to, notice the '!---' lines are replace with
<section>.
---demo.html----------------------------------------------------------------
<section>
<p>Slide 1</p>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<p>Slide 2</p>
<p>Some thing really import
goes here, with custom markdown syntax.</p>
</section>
<section>
<p>Slide 3</p>
<p><code>python
for i in range(10):
print i</code></p>
</section>