Pipeline

(This page is work-in-progress. This wants to be a simplification of what is explained in my Thesis (Italian), in which Quarkdown's architecture is thoroughly explained and documented. The thesis is updated to September 2024.

When an input file is supplied to Quarkdown, it undergoes a process of elaboration to transform it into an output resource, such as an HTML document that the browser can display. Under the hood, this process is represented by a sequential pipeline, in which the output of one stage becomes the input of the next one.

1. Lexing
2. Parsing
3. Function call expansion
4. Document tree traversal
5. Rendering
6. Post-rendering