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Shortcode Tokenizer and AST

Tokenizes a string containing shortcodes (re-popularized by WordPress) and outputs it as an AST that can be used for further parsing.

If you are only looking for simple transformations from a shortcode to a string I suggest that you give these libs a try:

• https://github.com/mendezcode/shortcode-parser
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/meta-shortcodes (handles nested shortcodes)

If you need more control this is the lib for you.

Install

npm install shortcode-tokenizer

Usage

import ShortcodeTokenizer from 'shortcode-tokenizer'

const input = `
<h1>Cool Shop</h1>
[row]
  [col width=6 class="featured"]
    [product-list list="featured" /]
  [/col]
  [col width=6 class="featured"]
    <div>Ad: Buy more, Buy often!</div>
  [/col]
[/row]
`

const tokenizer = new ShortcodeTokenizer(input)
tokenizer.ast()

The AST outputted is at root level an array of two nodes, a text node and a code-node:

[
    {
        type: 'TEXT',
        body: "<h1>Cool Shop</h1>"
        pos: 0
    },
    {
        type: 'OPEN',
        name: 'row',
        pos: 19,
        body: '[row]',
        isClosed: true,
        params: {},
        children: [
            ... a whitespace TEXT token ...,
            {
                type: 'OPEN',
                name: 'col',
                pos: 27,
                body: '[col width=6 class="featured"]',
                isClosed: true,
                params: {
                    width: 6,
                    class: 'featured'
                },
                children: [ ... and so on ... ]
             }
        ]
    }
]

(Note: the same data-structure is used to represent tokens from the lexing and nodes in the AST, see CLOSE, below)

There are 5 token types:

• TEXT: plain text. body contains the content.
• OPEN: an open token, e.g. [row].
• SELF_CLOSING: a self-closing token [post id=1/].
• CLOSE: a close token, e.g. [/row]. You will only see the left-over of these tokens in the AST as OPEN tokens that have their isClosed value set to true.
• ERROR: when in non-strict mode offending tokens are converted to ERROR tokens and which behaves like TEXT nodes.

API

Property options.strict

By default strict-mode is enabled and syntax errors will be thrown. Setting strict-mode to false will convert all errors into ERROR nodes.

Property options.skipWhiteSpace

By default skipWhiteSpace is off. When turned on all whitespace is trimmed and if there is nothing left the TEXT node is skippid.

constructor and input()

You can pass input in the constructor you can set it later using input().

Examples:

let t = new ShortcodeTokenizer('[code][/code]')
t.ast()

t.input('[code][/code]')
t.ast()

t.ast('[code][/code]')

tokens()

Returns all tokens.

ast([input])

Returns an AST created from the input.

buildTemplate([Token token], [object|string|null params=null])

Builds template on given token. If params is not specified the token.params object is used.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md