md4c

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "\n# MD4C Readme\n\n* Home: https://github.com/mity/md4c\n* Wiki: https://github.com/mity/md4c/wiki\n* Issue tracker: https://github.com/mity/md4c/issues\n\nMD4C stands for \"Markdown for C\" and that\u0027s exactly what this project is about.\n\n\n## What is Markdown\n\nIn short, Markdown is the markup language this `README.md` file is written in.\n\nThe following resources can explain more if you are unfamiliar with it:\n* [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)\n* [CommonMark site](https://commonmark.org)\n\n\n## What is MD4C\n\nMD4C is a Markdown parser implementation in C, with the following features:\n\n* **Compliance:** Generally, MD4C aims to be compliant to the latest version of\n  [CommonMark specification](https://spec.commonmark.org/). Currently, we are\n  fully compliant to CommonMark 0.31.\n\n* **Extensions:** MD4C supports some commonly requested and accepted extensions.\n  See below.\n\n* **Performance:** MD4C is [very fast](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/2520).\n\n* **Compactness:** MD4C parser is implemented in one source file and one header\n  file. There are no dependencies other than standard C library.\n\n* **Embedding:** MD4C parser is easy to reuse in other projects, its API is\n  very straightforward: There is actually just one function, `md_parse()`.\n\n* **Push model:** MD4C parses the complete document and calls few callback\n  functions provided by the application to inform it about a start/end of\n  every block, a start/end of every span, and with any textual contents.\n\n* **Portability:** MD4C builds and works on Windows and POSIX-compliant OSes.\n  (It should be simple to make it run also on most other platforms, at least as\n  long as the platform provides C standard library, including a heap memory\n  management.)\n\n* **Encoding:** MD4C by default expects UTF-8 encoding of the input document.\n  But it can be compiled to recognize ASCII-only control characters (i.e. to\n  disable all Unicode-specific code), or (on Windows) to expect UTF-16 (i.e.\n  what is on Windows c",
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  "why_use_this": "MD4C is a lightweight, embeddable C library ideal for projects needing Markdown parsing without heavy dependencies. Its push-model (callback-based) API and single-file implementation make it suitable for parsing pipelines, static site generators, or embedded documentation systems. Fast and compliant with CommonMark 0.31."
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