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Parsedown is certainly very fast, but I wouldn't call it "extensible". CeBe's markdown parser is nearly as fast, but focusses on being very easy to extend, so it's trivial to add custom syntax elements, see https://github.com/cebe/markdown

(CeBe's library is inspired by parsedown)

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> Parsedown is certainly very fast, but I wouldn't call it "extensible".

Parsedown is extensible and it already has been extended. There's a well working extension of Parsedown that adds support for Markdown Extra. It's called Parsedown Extra. It can be found at https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra

It is possible to extend, but extensible requires more. In this case, ParsedownExtra looks to directly extend the Parsedown class. This is fine for a single extension, but it discourages utilization of multiple independent extensions.

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