Anybody done a markdown parser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) for ABL? If so: care to share? If not: I might do one myself but if somebody already invented the wheel...
Why waste any time? I would use node.js and the markdown package (www.npmjs.com/.../markdown). Just spawn node from OE and there you go.
"Just because you can" would be enough reason for me ;)
I'd rather not add another technical echosystem to solve a minor issue like this.
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Actually parse the document structure as a tree from OE? There are plenty of parsers for .net or plain c that you might be able to use, I would not start implementing a parser in OE using string manipulation routines available in 4GL :(
Goal would be to output formatted html via Webspeed. I can always fall back to plain old client side javascript for this as well.