Markdown

Conversion

From HTML

• to-markdown.js by @domchristie
• html2markdown by @hgilani
• Pandoc by John MacFarlane

These could be used for converting HTML to Markdown for use as literate CoffeeScript. That way, you could just write an HTML page with your code in <pre> sections, and push it through a toolchain that would compile it to JavaScript:

script.min.js: script.js
	uglifyjs $< > $@

script.js: script.coffee.md
	coffee -c $<

script.coffee.md: script.html
	html2markdown $< > $@

Now we just need makefile2svg...

Of course, if you're not actually using the .coffee.md file anywhere, you can just go ahead and write a node script that uses jQuery (after parsing the HTML5) and CoffeeScript itself to yank <pre> sections out of a file, concatenate them together, and then compile them to JavaScript. Ought to be quite a small script.

(And yes, of course html2text.)

XSLT

"There's the right way, the wrong way, and the XSLT way."

• markdown.xsl by Michael Eichelsdoerfer
• xslt-markdown by @bauhouse
• markdown.xsl by Andrew Green

XSLT sounds like it might be a possible match, though then you'd have to make sure you emit XHTML which is always a bit nauseating. Some really crazy guy is going from Markdown to HTML using XSLT, instead of from XHTML to Markdown.

See also filetype:xsl Markdown.