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XML Rendering

Version 2.0 introduced the ability to render Markdown Document objects in XML. This is particularly useful for debugging custom extensions.

To convert Markdown to XML, you would instantiate an Environment, parse the Markdown into an AST, and render it using the new XmlRenderer:

use League\CommonMark\Environment\Environment;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\CommonMark\CommonMarkCoreExtension;
use League\CommonMark\Parser\MarkdownParser;
use League\CommonMark\Xml\XmlRenderer;

$environment = new Environment();
$environment->addExtension(new CommonMarkCoreExtension());

$parser = new MarkdownParser($environment);
$renderer = new XmlRenderer($environment);

$document = $parser->parse('# **Hello** World!');

echo $renderer->renderDocument($document);

This will display XML output like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document xmlns="http://commonmark.org/xml/1.0">
    <heading level="1">
        <strong>
            <text>Hello</text>
        </strong>
        <text> World!</text>
    </heading>
</document>

Return Value

Like with CommonMarkConverter::convertToHtml(), the renderDocument() actually returns an instance of League\CommonMark\Output\RenderedContentInterface. You can cast this (implicitly, as shown above, or explicitly) to a string or call getContent() to get the final XML output.

Customizing the XML Output

See the rendering documentation for information on customizing the XML output.


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