Getting Started¶

As a simple example we will use the HTML language:

lexor install html

Consider the file example.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
</head>
    <body>
            <h1>Example</h1>
            <p>
                This is an example

                </p>
        </body>
</html>

Now we can rewrite this file into three different versions:

lexor example.html html~plain,min,_~ -wn

The -w option writes the output to a file by appending the specified style. The -n suppress the output in the terminal.

The following are the files written:

example.default.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Example</h1>
<p> This is an example </p>
</body>
</html>

example.plain.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
</head>
    <body>
            <h1>Example</h1>
            <p>
                This is an example

                </p>
        </body>

example.min.html:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Example</title></head><body><h1>Example</h1><p> This is an example </p></body></html>

For more information on how to transform files see the lexor command to.