Figured out how to make using the enum a lot less annoying!

src/elements.rs

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub enum Item {
-    Ignore,
-    Text(String),
-    //text, links, formatting are all markdown
-    //arguably, for better control it will be best to turn markdown into its own set of items
-    Image(String),
-    Gif(String), //can't detect gif from image, has to be handled on front-end
-    Svg(String),// wont' support for a while I think.
-    Video(Video),
-    Audio(Audio),
-    Source(String),
-    BoldedText(Vec<Item>),
-    EmphasisText(Vec<Item>),
-    UnorderedList(Vec<Item>),
-    OrderedList(Vec<Item>),
-    ListItem(Vec<Item>),
-    Paragraph(Vec<Item>),//gotta replace this with specific items, needlessly flexible
-    Link(Link),
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Link{
-    pub href: String,
-    pub children: Vec<Item>
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Video{
-    pub children: Vec<Item>
-    //might have to do fancy things to detect autoplay...
-}
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Audio{
-    pub children: Vec<Item>
-    //might have to do fancy things to detect autoplay...
-}
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub enum ContainerTag{
-    P,
-    Div,
-    Button,//arguably redundant
-    Table,
-
-}

src/lib.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,33 @@
 use scraper::{ElementRef, Html, Node};
-pub mod elements;
-use elements::*;
 
 /*
     The goal here is to flatten the DOM as much as possible. 
     paragraphs with fancy formatting are turned into markdown, same with 
 */
+
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum Item {
+    Ignore,
+    Text(String),
+    //text, links, formatting are all markdown
+    //arguably, for better control it will be best to turn markdown into its own set of items
+    Image(String),
+    Gif(String), //can't detect gif from image, has to be handled on front-end
+    Svg(String),// wont' support for a while I think.
+    Video(Vec<Item>),
+    Audio(Vec<Item>),
+    Source(String),
+    BoldedText(Vec<Item>),
+    EmphasisText(Vec<Item>),
+    UnorderedList(Vec<Item>),
+    OrderedList(Vec<Item>),
+    ListItem(Vec<Item>),
+    Paragraph(Vec<Item>),//gotta replace this with specific items, needlessly flexible
+    Link(String,Vec<Item>),
+}
+
+
 pub fn itemize_content(content: &str) -> Vec<Item> {
     let frag = Html::parse_fragment(content);
     frag.root_element().children().map(|e|{
@@ -37,12 +59,9 @@ fn parse_items(n: ego_tree::NodeRef<'_,Node>) -> Item{
                     Some(link) => {link}
                     None => {""}
                 };
-                return Item::Link(
+                return Item::Link(href.to_owned(),get_children(&el))
-                        Link{
+                                            
-                            href: href.to_owned(), 
+                
-                            children: get_children(&el)
-                        }                    
-                 )
             }
             "img" => {
                 match el.attr("src") {
@@ -61,11 +80,7 @@ fn parse_items(n: ego_tree::NodeRef<'_,Node>) -> Item{
                 }
             }
             "video" => {
-                return Item::Video(
+                return Item::Video(get_children(&el))                
-                    Video{
-                        children: get_children(&el)
-                    }
-                )
             }
             "ol" => {
                 return Item::OrderedList(get_children(&el))