C# Literate Programming in HTML

A command-line program, written in C#, that extracts chunks of code (well, chunks of any text) from an HTML file and assembles them into a single string, which can then be written to disk for compilation.

Typical usage: mono mtangle.exe someFile.html ChunkName > myFile.cs

The program does two simple things:

(1) It prints the contents of an HTML preformatted block of the form:

<pre id="ChunkName">
code
</pre>

(2) Within such a preformatted "chunk", it replaces pseudo-tags of the form <getchunk id="innerChunk"> with the chunk identified by the id pseudo-parameter. In other words:

<pre id="ChunkName">
code
</pre>

<pre id="ChunkName">
preCode
&lt;getchunk id="include"&gt;
postCode
</pre>

Would be retrieved as:

preCode
code
postCode

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This is a port of the C program described at http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/litprog.html

Rather than really parsing the input file as either HTML or XML, this program uses hard-coded text and regular expressions. That's per the original C program; it would be trivial to change it to, at the very least, work with XHTML-style HTML.

Ultimately, I'd like to do a Markdown-driven literate programming editor, but that's a major undertaking.