How to get only text from parsed eocument not the markdown code

[robopzet]

I want to get only the text from a document. The nodes of a parsed document contain Text nodes, but they expose the original text, including markup. Is there a way to get more basic tokens, for example for a link get a node with the URL and one with the content?

This is how the text is parsed, based on these docs.:

$parser = new MarkdownParser(new Environment());
$doc    = $parser->parse($this->getBody());

foreach ($doc->iterator() as $nod) {
    if ($nod instanceof Text) {
        echo 'Node: ' . get_class($nod) . ': ' . $nod->getLiteral() . "\n";
}

[colinodell]

The new Environment() in your code isn't configured with any parsers or extensions, and therefore the engine doesn't know how to parse those tokens, so it assumes everything it sees is plain text. Try adding the CommonMarkCoreExtension:

$environment = new Environment();
$environment->addExtension(new CommonMarkCoreExtension());

$parser = new MarkdownParser($environment);
$doc    = $parser->parse($this->getBody());

foreach ($doc->iterator() as $nod) {
    if ($nod instanceof Text) {
        echo 'Node: ' . get_class($nod) . ': ' . $nod->getLiteral() . "\n";
    }
}

[robopzet]

@colinodell ok, I see. I thought the default configuration would treat the input as markdown.

[colinodell]

Ah, gotcha. It works that way because parsers can only be added, not removed, and some people might not want to support things like blockquote or lists in their applications. (Perhaps using https://commonmark.thephpleague.com/2.4/extensions/inlines-only/#usage)