Conversion

Convert Markdown directly when the application only needs one output. Open a document first when the same parsed structure will also be queried, edited, linted, or rendered more than once.

<?php

use Alto\Markdown\Markdown;

$html = Markdown::github()->toHtml("# Guide\n\nRead **carefully**.\n");

Output

• HTML: render blocks or inline fragments with an explicit HTML policy.
• Markdown: preserve original source or produce normalized Markdown.

Direct conversion avoids retaining a document object. Document output preserves unchanged source bytes until an operation explicitly normalizes them.