BBCode Editor

BBCode Editor provides parsing, validation, and transformation of BBCode markup to support content creation on forums and communities. It targets editors, moderators, and developers integrating forum tooling. It addresses issues of missing closing tags, invalid nesting, and inconsistent formatting that degrade readability and disrupt posting workflows.
Core capabilities include tokenizing input into BBCode tags and plain text, detecting missing or mismatched tags, enforcing a canonical tag set, escaping content when needed, and producing a clean transformed output. Optional features include cross-dialect conversion (e.g., standard BBCode to forum-specific variants) and detailed diagnostic reports that enumerate errors.
Inputs required are the source text; optional settings include dialect selection and strict mode. Outputs are a transformed BBCode string and a validation report summarizing issues and resolutions. The tool operates in a non-rendering fashion, focusing on syntax correctness and portability across forums.
Assumptions and edge cases: it assumes roughly well-formed input and names from the supported tag set. It handles unclosed tags, unknown tags, and complex nesting with a stack-based validator. It gracefully reports errors and continues to produce best-effort output when possible. It does not perform HTML rendering unless explicitly requested for conversion to HTML.