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I have some markdown text.

I use MarkDig to parse the markdown text and obtain a markdown-document-object-model. (markdown-DOM.)

From that, I want to obtain an HTML-DOM.

As far as I can tell, the only thing MarkDig can easily do in that direction is to convert the markdown-DOM into HTML text.

This means that I would then have to use some other HTML library (e.g. HtmlAgilityPack (site, GitHub) or AngleSharp) to parse that HTML text into an HTML-DOM.

That would be a bit too roundabout for my taste.

So, how can I produce an HTML-DOM from the markdown-DOM generated by MarkDig?

Note: I do not have to use MarkDig, so if there is some other library that produces a markdown-DOM which is easier to convert to an HTML DOM, I am open to it.

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mplungjan
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If you look at

https://dotnetfiddle.net/GoZXyI

you can see it does HTML

If you want that in a DOM then you need a DOMParser and create a document

I found this for .NET https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls/using-the-managed-html-document-object-model

and this for node https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-html-parser (there are several)

browser https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMParser

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Mister Jojo
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If the problem is simply being able to read your Markdown files in an HTML browser, the easiest solution is to use an extension like MD Reader.

Otherwise, I understand that LibreOffice is working on full integration of this format. The preview (2026?) will allow direct reading of MD files; then you'll be able to export them in all LibreOffice formats: .odf, .pdf, .html, .docx, etc.

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