A Clojure library designed to parse front matter from a file.

Supported front matter formats are follwoing:

• YAML
• JSON
• EDN

Add following dependency to your profject.clj.

(require '[frontmatter.core :as fm])

(fm/parse "foo.txt")
;=> {:frontmatter {:foo "bar"}
     :body "this is body"}

• YAML front matter is separated by ---.

---
hello: "world"
nums:
  - one
  - two
  - three
---

this is body

• JSON front matter is separated by ;;;.

;;;
"hello": "world",
"nums": [
    "one",
    "two",
    "three"
]
;;;

this is body

• EDN front matter is separated by ###.

###
:hello "world"
:nums [
    "one"
    "two"
    "three"
]
###

this is body

Copyright (C) 2014 Masashi Iizuka (@uochan)

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.