Text Formatter Laravel Package

From posting to displaying to editing, s9e\TextFormatter separates its operations in 4 distinct phases:

• Configuration: configure s9e\TextFormatter and the plugins you want to use, or use a preconfigured bundle.

• Parsing: the text is parsed and can be stored as an XML document.

• Rendering: the XML document is transformed into HTML.

• Unparsing: the XML document is transformed back into plain text.

                Parsing 
              ↗         ↘
Original text             XML → Rendering → HTML
              ↖         ↙
               Unparsing

The configurator object can be used to generate a parser object and a renderer object. They can be serialized and should be cached for performance. Preconfigured parsers and renderers are available through bundles.

                             $parser
                           ↗    ↕
$configurator → finalize()   (cache)
                           ↘    ↕
                             $renderer

The parser object transforms plain text into XML, the renderer object transforms XML into HTML. The XML can be reverted back to the original text using the s9e\TextFormatter\Unparser::unparse() static method. This is done without losing or modifying any content. (apart from a few control characters such as NUL bytes)

        $parser->parse()
      ↗                  ↘
$text                      $xml → $renderer->render() → $html
      ↖                  ↙
       Unparser::unparse()