Podlite 2.0 released
Podlite 2.0 is tagged. Podlite is a block-based markup language built around typed blocks and explicit boundaries — the same document is meant to read cleanly whether a person or a tool parses it. This release adds eight blocks and attributes and changes two parsing rules. The specification is at podlite.org/specification ; the full changelog sits inside the spec under =head2 v2.0 . The Coming in Podlite 2.0 article from the review window covered what is new in depth. This post focuses on what to do now: how to migrate existing documents and where to find the rest. For most documents the answer is short — a well-formed v1.0 document renders unchanged under v2.0. Breaking changes Two changes parse differently than before. Neither touches a well-formed document — if anything needs updating, it is a parser, not your text. Legacy attribute syntax removed A few outdated string attribute formats are gone. The bracket form ( :key<value> ) and the parenthesized form ( :key('value') ) remain. If a document uses the current syntax, nothing changes. =include is now a directive =include always behaved like a directive, but the spec previously listed it under block types. Tokenization rules differ between directives and blocks. Parsers built against the v1.0 spec must move =include into the directive dispatch path alongside =config and =alias . For document authors: no change. =include still takes the same syntax and produces the same output. The reclassification matters only for tools that build ASTs. New features at a glance Eight additions ship in v2.0. Existing documents render unchanged. =boundary : a typed section divider. Renders as a horizontal rule, exposes structure to tools. =set : pre-configure attributes for the next block. Multiline values, inline markup, lexical scope. G<> + :masked : content masking. Inline mark or whole-block attribute; hidden by default, revealed by render condition. =data-table block: renders CSV or TSV as a table. Three source forms (inline b