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Suggestions for a good Content Formatting Library

I am trying to implement a content formatting feature in my website - that is, I want to let my users type for example [b]bold[/b] or (like SO) * * bold * * and end up with bold. I also want support for headers, links, images etc.

The more I'm working on this, the more I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel. If possible, I would like to find an OpenSource library that I could use, or at least "borrow" from. So my question is:
What content formatting library do you recommend? Why?

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Stack Overflow uses Markdown, for which there are many open source formatting libraries available.

Greg Hewgill  2009-04-21 09:22:06
Markdown in its original form requires Perl, which did not really comply to my need to use it with ASP.NET C#. However, a couple of Google searches gave me Markdown.NET, which was exactly what I wanted =)
Tomas Lycken  2009-04-21 14:30:58

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