Adds links to legal citations within Markdown text.
$ npm install citation-linker
citationLinker = require("citation-linker");
// dumb hack for multi-line string
var text =
[
'- a list',
'- of things',
'- and stuff',
'',
'foo',
'apples',
'pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1)(E) and',
'also pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Part 15',
'and something else from: D.C. Official Code §§ 38-2602(b)(11)'
].join('\n');
var pagedown = require("pagedown");
var safeConverter = pagedown.getSanitizingConverter();
citationLinker.addCitationLinkerToPagedownConverter(safeConverter);
console.log(safeConverter.makeHtml(text));Output:
<ul>
<li>a list</li>
<li>of things</li>
<li>and stuff</li>
</ul>
<p>foo
apples
pursuant to <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/552">5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1)(E)</a> and
also pursuant to <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15">47 C.F.R. Part 15</a>
and something else from: <a href="http://dccode.org/browser/#/38/38-2602">D.C. Official Code §§ 38-2602(b)(11)</a></p>