The problem is that when I paste an svg into one of my markdown files, pandoc parses the contents of the svg as markdown, and adds unwanted tags inside the svg (which makes it unusable).

Is there some way to input html that says *pandoc don't touch this* :P

I know I can just disable the parsing inside of html tags,

but I also need to use that elsewhere.

Is there a way to have an area in my document that pandoc will just copy directly over to the html?