#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
The J markup language
"""

# TODO:
# Of course, JML should be broken into discrete files as follows function.

### block types

class Block(object):
    """
    the abstract notion of a block of text;
    this is a hierarchy
    """

    def __init__(self, block, parent=None):
        self.block = block   # naively store the full text for now
        self.parent = parent # the parent block
        self.children = []   # child blocks

    def level(self):
        """(global) nesting level this instance is at"""
        if self.parent is None:
            return 0
        return self.parent.levels() + 1

    def split(self):
        """
        split the text:
        >>> text = '\nthis is a\nparagraph
        """

### command line handling

def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
    pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()