(PowerShell) Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Custom Theme with Code Syntax Highlighting

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Demonstrates how to convert a complete Markdown document to HTML using your own custom theme with Cloudfare Prism's code syntax highlighting.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.2.0 or greater.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$success = $false

$options = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject

# Instead of specifying a "theme", provide values for the HTML document parts.

$sbHead = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$bCrlf = $true
$sbHead.AppendLine("<head>",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("<style>",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("body {",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("  font-family: `"Segoe UI`", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("}",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("</style>",$bCrlf)
$sbHead.AppendLine("</head>",$bCrlf)

# Each HTML section can be set individually.
$options.UpdateString("docType","<!DOCTYPE html>")
$options.UpdateString("rootElement","<html lang=`"en`">")
$options.UpdateString("head",$sbHead.GetAsString())
$options.UpdateString("bodyStart","<body>`n<div id=`"content`"")
$options.UpdateString("bodyEnd","</div>`n</body>")

# We can add extra content to the bottom of the HTML head and body sections like this:
# Here we are using the Cloudfare Prism "coy" theme for code syntax higlighting.
$options.UpdateString("extraHead","<link rel=`"stylesheet`" href=`"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/themes/prism-coy.min.css`" />")
$options.UpdateString("extraBody","<script src=`"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/prism.min.js`"></script><script src =`"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/plugins/autoloader/prism-autoloader.min.js`"></script>")

$sbMarkdown = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbHtml = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder

$success = $sbMarkdown.LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($sbMarkdown.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$sbMarkdown.MarkdownToHtml($options,$sbHtml)
$sbHtml.ToCRLF()

$($sbHtml.GetAsString())

# The sample markdown input for this example is identical to the one at Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Raw, where you can view it.

# Sample HTML output as viewed in a browser:

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