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The syntax of HTML, along with rules for how to parse content using those syntaxes.

Documents are built from elements. These elements form a tree using the DOM. This section defines the features of this DOM, as well as introducing the features common to all elements, and the concepts used in defining elements.

The conformance classes, algorithms, definitions, and the common underpinnings of the HTML specification.

There are various places in HTML that accept particular data types, such as dates or numbers. This section describes what the conformance criteria for content in those formats is, and how to parse them.

CoffeeKup is a templating engine for node.js and browsers that lets you to write your HTML templates in 100% pure CoffeeScript.

Microformats, RDFa and microdata all enable consumers to extract data from HTML pages. This data may be embedded within enhanced search engine results, exposed to users through browser extensions, aggregated across websites or used by scripts running within those HTML pages.

This guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data use it well. With several syntaxes and vocabularies to choose from, it provides guidance about how to decide which meets the publisher's or consumer's needs. It discusses when it is necessary to mix syntaxes and vocabularies and how to publish and consume data that uses multiple formats. It describes how to create vocabularies that can be used in multiple syntaxes and general best practices about the publication and consumption of HTML data.

CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and the editor will optionally help you with indentation.

Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web.

Microformats, RDFa and microdata all enable consumers to extract data from HTML pages. This data may be embedded within enhanced search engine results, exposed to users through browser extensions, aggregated across websites or used by scripts running within those HTML pages.

This guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data use it well. With several syntaxes and vocabularies to choose from, it provides guidance about how to decide which meets the publisher's or consumer's needs. It discusses when it is necessary to mix syntaxes and vocabularies and how to publish and consume data that uses multiple formats. It describes how to create vocabularies that can be used in multiple syntaxes and general best practices about the publication and consumption of HTML data.

Plates (short for templates) binds data to markup. There's NO special syntax. It works in the browser and in node.js! The right way to do this is with a DOM. Unfortunately, at the moment, the DOM is slow. On the server, it is quite slow. So Plates implements a very loose HTML parser.

a DOM implementation in ANSI escape codes, render HTML to your terminal.

Designed to be highly portable and available, drawing on Mustache, Django and micro-templating for inspiration.

Weld binds data to markup, and can generate markup based on your data. There's NO special syntax or data reshaping required. It works in the browser and in node.js!

This page contains tables of known HTML rel values from specifications, formats, proposals, brainstorms, and non-trivial POSH usage in the wild. In addition, dropped and rejected values are listed at the end for comprehensiveness

XHTML2PDF is a converter for HTML/XHTML and CSS to PDF and a Python package.

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too. Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, textile, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, textile, groff man pages, Emacs org-mode, EPUB ebooks, and S5 and Slidy HTML slide shows. PDF output (via LaTeX) is also supported with the included markdown2pdf wrapper script.

Javascript templating system for displaying JSON data.

A list of research papers, articles, web APIs, libraries and other software for article text extraction.

In the world of web scraping, text mining and article reading utilities (readability bookmarklet) there is an ever growing demand for utilities that are capable of distinguishing parts of a HTML document which represent an article apart from other common website building blocks like menus, headers, footers, ads etc.

In search of a good general-purpose method of pulling the content out of arbitrary web pages and leaving the boilerplate, advertising, navigation, etc. behind. See also http://bit.ly/4SFOIH

Short URL auto-discovery is a simple way to link a long URL with a short URL. The following code should be placed in the <head> section of the HTML page: <link rel="shorturl" href="http://short.com/1234" />

RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.

We need to partition the idea of extensibility into two parts: extending the platform vs. extending the language.

A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library.