Lightweight markup language for HTML5

Question

I've been using template toolkit + multi-markdown + Perl scripts as glue for my website.

This combination has a few problems:

1. I still have to do ugly things like:

   <div class=picture_right>
   
   {link to image}
   
   text for caption
   

with appropriate styling for picture_right.

2. To ensure that text is processed inside <div> tags, I have to add the flag markdown="1" to the div.

3. Seems I usually end up with a raft of surplus <p>tags wrapping things. This keeps my output from validating properly, but otherwise seems harmless.

I think that HTML5 is mature enough now to use as an output format. Such things as figure, article, footnote are clearer than <div class...> structures.

I'm looking for a lightweight markup language that has decent support to use HTML5 in a not too cluttered way.

Ideally: Customizable to do things like: H1 headlines automatically produce articles, H2 produce sections, customization and defaults can be pulled in from external file. (I'm just learning about the possibilities of HTML5.)

Answer 1

All in all, you're trying to say you want to learn html5. I suggest Head First Html5 by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman.