How to retrieve BOTH the markdown and html using the wmd-editor control?

asp.net-mvc, markdown, wmd-editor

Solution

I'm using Markdown.NET library for this. Using this library you can convert Markdown markup on the server side. It is very simple:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post), Authorize]
public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection)
{
    ...

    article.Title = collection["Title"];
    article.Body = collection["Body"];

    var bodyHtml = new anrControls.Markdown().Transform(collection["Body"]);

    article.BodyHtml = bodyHtml;

    ...
}

Hope this helps

Problem

I am using WMD-Editor and would look to store both the Markdown and HTML version of the text that is entered. I can only seem to get access to the output as Markdown OR HTML, but not both. I am using ASP.NET MVC and am trying to get something like the following code to work ... just don't know how to get at the HTML. Here is a snippet of the HTML code: ``` <p> <%= Html.TextArea("Body", this.Model.Body )%> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("Body", "*") %> <div class="wmd-preview"> </div> </p> ``` Here is what I would like to do in my controller: ``` [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post), Authorize] public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection) { ... article.Title = collection["Title"]; article.Body = collection["Body"]; article.BodyHtml = collection["BodyHtml"]; ... } ``` Any ideas on how to make this happen would be much appreciated!

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