<reponame>ansobolev/pyparsing
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# nested_markup.py
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# Example markup parser to recursively transform nested markup directives.
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# Copyright 2019, <NAME>
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import pyparsing as pp

wiki_markup = pp.Forward()

# a method that will construct and return a parse action that will
# do the proper wrapping in opening and closing HTML, and recursively call
# wiki_markup.transformString on the markup body text
def convert_markup_to_html(opening,closing):
    def conversionParseAction(s, l, t):
        return opening + wiki_markup.transformString(t[1][1:-1]) + closing
    return conversionParseAction

# use a nestedExpr with originalTextFor to parse nested braces, but return the
# parsed text as a single string containing the outermost nested braces instead
# of a nested list of parsed tokens
markup_body = pp.originalTextFor(pp.nestedExpr('{', '}'))
italicized = ('ital' + markup_body).setParseAction(convert_markup_to_html("<I>", "</I>"))
bolded = ('bold' + markup_body).setParseAction(convert_markup_to_html("<B>", "</B>"))

# another markup and parse action to parse links - again using transform string
# to recursively parse any markup in the link text
def convert_link_to_html(s, l, t):
    t['link_text'] = wiki_markup.transformString(t['link_text'])
    return '<A href="{url}">{link_text}</A>'.format_map(t)
urlRef = ('link'
          + '{' + pp.SkipTo('->')('link_text') + '->' + pp.SkipTo('}')('url') + '}'
          ).setParseAction(convert_link_to_html)

# now inject all the markup bits as possible markup expressions
wiki_markup <<= urlRef | italicized | bolded

# try it out!
wiki_input = """
Here is a simple Wiki input:

  ital{This is in italics}.
  bold{This is in bold}!
  bold{This is in ital{bold italics}! But this is just bold.}
  Here's a URL to link{Pyparsing's bold{Wiki Page}!->https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/wiki}
"""
print(wiki_markup.transformString(wiki_input))
