Writing an Asciidoc Parser in Rust: Asciidocr
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Why not pandoc import filter.
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The above does not mean: "do not parser outside pandoc". There are reasons not to use pandoc. It means: Please explain why not. It helps others to choose.
Also TIL about HTMLBook, which looks like a nice subset of HTML for documents.
https://oreillymedia.github.io/HTMLBook/