Pandoc: Pandoc highlighting does not support JavaScript JSX

[karland]

React is an extremly popular JavaScript library. It embeds a scripting language called JSX in normal JS code. Even though pandoc supports JavaScript, it does not support JSX. It is also not listed under the pandoc --list-highlight-languages. Just wanted to tell how a result looks like.

[jgm]

We'd need a jsx.xml syntax definition for the KDE syntax
highlighting framework, and then we can add it. I don't
see one in their repository (over 220 syntaxes).

If you feel like making one, go ahead, but do submit it
upstream to KDE.

Soon pandoc will have the ability to load xml syntax
definitions dynamically, which will give you a way to add
this without recompiling the highlighting library.

[jgm]

PS. See jgm/skylighting, which is the library we use for
highlighting, for more details.

[karland]

Ok, thanks for the fast response. I have a look at the xml library. Close this for the time being.

[jakoblind]

hi @karland did you make any progress on this one? :)

[karland]

Hi @jakoblind, no unfortunately not.

[jakoblind]

I figured it out. In latest version of pandoc it accepts a parameter --syntax-definition so you can pass in a jsx syntax definition like this: --syntax-definition=pandoc-jsx/jsx.xml

[davidroman0O]

@jakoblind @jgm It may be stupid buuuut is there a pandoc-jsx/jsx.xml somewhere now ?

[Everettss]

@davidroman0O I found one here https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/changeset/?ref=262426&whitespace=ignore-most
Additionally I have to add pandoc-jsx/language.dtd I used this one based on comment https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgm/highlighting-kate/master/xml/language.dtd