1. first comments are stripped out of the line well they are actually still there if you want to add them in to your output 2. multiline elements are processed 3. any tags that begining a line are stripped and added to the token list 4. the inline text elements are then run 1. soemthing else this is to make sure the child elements are correct # you can have heading in here 2. more shit 1. something sometext someother text even more text