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See the [installation instructions](install.html) to get started.
+Goals
+-----
+
+The Python-Markdown project is developed with the following goals in mind:
+
+* Maintain a python implementation of markdown that follows the
+ [syntax rules](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)
+ and the behavior of the original (markdown.pl) implementation as reasonably
+ as possible (see [differences](#differences) for a few exceptions).
+* Provide an [Extension API](extensions/api.html) which allows any behaviors of
+ the parser to be overridden/changed.
+
Features
--------
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-----------
While Python-Markdown strives to fully implement markdown as described in the
-syntax rules, the rules can be interpreted in different ways and different
-implementations occasionally vary in their behavior (see the
+[syntax rules](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), the rules
+can be interpreted in different ways and different implementations
+occasionally vary in their behavior (see the
[Babelmark FAQ](http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-examples-of-interesting-divergences-between-implementations)
for some examples). Known and intentional differences found in Python-Markdown
are summarized below: