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unist-util-remove-position
unist utility to remove positional info from a tree.
Contents
What is this?
This is a small utility that helps you remove the position
field from nodes in
a unist tree.
When should I use this?
Often, positional info is the whole reason, or an important reason, for using
ASTs.
Sometimes, especially when comparing trees, or when inserting one tree into
another, the positional info is at best useless and at worst harmful.
In those cases, you can use this utility to remove position
fields from a
tree.
You might find the utility unist-util-position
useful to instead get clean position info from a tree, or
unist-util-generated
useful to check whether a node is
considered to be generated (not in the original input file).
You might also enjoy
unist-util-stringify-position
when you want
to display positional info to users.
Install
This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 14.14+ and 16.0+), install with npm:
npm install unist-util-remove-position
In Deno with esm.sh
:
import {removePosition} from 'https://esm.sh/unist-util-remove-position@4'
In browsers with esm.sh
:
<script type="module">
import {removePosition} from 'https://esm.sh/unist-util-remove-position@4?bundle'
</script>
Use
import {fromMarkdown} from 'mdast-util-from-markdown'
import {removePosition} from 'unist-util-remove-position'
const tree = fromMarkdown('Some _emphasis_, **importance**, and `code`.')
removePosition(tree, {force: true})
console.dir(tree, {depth: null})
Yields:
{
type: 'root',
children: [
{
type: 'paragraph',
children: [
{type: 'text', value: 'Some '},
{type: 'emphasis', children: [{type: 'text', value: 'emphasis'}]},
{type: 'text', value: ', '},
{type: 'strong', children: [{type: 'text', value: 'importance'}]},
{type: 'text', value: ', and '},
{type: 'inlineCode', value: 'code'},
{type: 'text', value: '.'}
]
}
]
}
API
This package exports the identifier removePosition
.
There is no default export.
removePosition(node[, force|options])
Remove the position
field from a tree.
Parameters
node
(Node
) — tree to cleanforce
(boolean
) — equivalent to{force: boolean}
options
(Options
, optional) — configuration
Returns
The given, modified, tree
(Node
).
Options
Configuration (TypeScript type).
Fields
force
(boolean
, default:false
) — whether to usedelete
to removeposition
fields, the default is to set them toundefined
Types
This package is fully typed with TypeScript.
It exports the additional type Options
.
Compatibility
Projects maintained by the unified collective are compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+. Our projects sometimes work with older versions, but this is not guaranteed.
Contribute
See contributing.md
in syntax-tree/.github
for
ways to get started.
See support.md
for ways to get help.
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