Basic conversion skeleton

markdownify/__init__.py

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+from lxml.etree import tostring
+from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
+
+
+class MarkdownConverter(object):
+    def __init__(self, strip=None, keep=None):
+        if strip is not None and keep is not None:
+            raise ValueError('You may specify either tags to strip or tags to'
+                    ' keep, but not both.')
+        self.strip = strip
+        self.keep = keep
+
+    def convert(self, html):
+        soup = fromstring(html)
+        self.convert_tag(soup)
+        return soup.text
+
+    def convert_tag(self, node):
+        text = node.text or ''
+
+        # Convert the children first
+        for el in node.findall('*'):
+            self.convert_tag(el)
+
+            convert_fn = getattr(self, 'convert_%s' % el.tag, None)
+            tail = el.tail or ''
+            el.tail = ''
+
+            if convert_fn:
+                text += convert_fn(el)
+            else:
+                text += el.text or ''
+
+            text += tail
+
+        node.clear()
+        node.text = text
+
+
+def markdownify(html, strip=None, keep=None):
+    converter = MarkdownConverter(strip, keep)
+    return converter.convert(html)

markdownify/version.py

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+__version__ = '0.1.0'