Parse markdown text in chat content and format as standard HTML

[deleolajide]

Use the marked-js library to convert readable markdown text in Converse chat/chat-room panels into view-able HTML. This is not compatible with XEP-0393.

[deleolajide]

Done and available in version 0.6.0.

Adding marked-js to Converse was straightforward. The only feature that seems to be missing seems to be the use of parenthesis to mark spans. All three use cases from the XEP are supported.

My use case will be markdown code pasted from GitHub or elsewhere. A bit more work needs to be done on the marked.css styling to make it generic enough and usable for that.

[deleolajide]

Added clipboard to markdown using Euan Goddard's utility.

This enables rich text to be copied from documents or web pages and pasted into Converse chat as markdown.

[deleolajide]

Added a very good markdown editor also using marked.js from lepture.

This completes the markdown support and closes this issue. Pàdé users can author or paste external formatted blocks of text into conversations that are readable from plain text XMPP clients,

[deleolajide]

Add support for Markdown Interactive Content by generating html form labels and input controls from markdown using the marked-forms project

This will be a simplified alternative to H5P interactive publishing that can be easily used with Canned Responses to provide a solution to a number of use cases which include:

• User Polls
• Voting
• Surveys
• Information gathering

Use XEP-004: Data Forms to publish the data from the forms to the PEP node of the user that posts the interactive content.

[deleolajide]

Done and available in version 0.8.11.

xAPI was too complicated for this requirement. Now it seems PEP and XMPP data forms are also an overkill to deliver forms data back to the form originator. As the data will be consumed client-side in JavaScript by the originator, a JSON playload delivered via XEP-0335: JSON Containers will be best suited for the task.