Best practice for parsing multiline statements?

[hason]

I have created https://github.com/webuni/commonmark-table-extension extension, but I'm not satisfied with it's implementation. The whole parsing logic is in the method Table::finalize. The greatest pain is replacement of the previous element in the method TableParser::parse.

Is there any better way to parse complex and multiline structures?

[colinodell]

You could try looking at how the ListParser works. It works by identifying lines which are list items. If the current container isn't a ListBlock, it'll create that on-the-fly and add the item to it.

Perhaps you can use a similar approach for tables?

[colinodell]

I'm closing this due to inactivity. We can certainly reopen it if needed though.