HTML to Markdown and >/< entities

HTML to Markdown and >/< entities

[Benjamin Ullrich]

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I'm new to pandoc and currently experimenting to convert from HTML to Markdown. For this I have created the following sample input text: 


text&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>strong</strong> <em>emphasize</em> &gt; &amp; &lt; &copy; text <a href=
"http://domain.test" <http://domain.test>>Link Title</a> 

My expectation for the result would be: 

text  **strong** **emphasize** > & < © text [Link Title](http://domain.test) 


Instead, running pandoc like: 

pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict --normalize --wrap none /tmp/pandoc_input 

where /tmp/pandoc_input contains the above mentioned text produces the following output: 


text  **strong** **emphasize** &gt; & &lt; © text [Link Title](
http://domain.test) 

All looks fine except &gt; and &lt; are not converted as I would expect. 

My current system: 

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 
pandoc 1.16.0.2 

I also tried with pandoc 1.19.1 from Ubuntu Artful, same problem. 

I also tried with pandoc 1.12.0.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There &gt; and &lt; are converted but preceded with a \ which is also not what I would expect: 


text  **bold** **italic** \> & \< © text [Link Title](http://domain.test) 


Am I just missing something here? Should it work as I expect or is my expectation wrong? Any input on what could be the problem or how to circumvent the issue would be appreciated. 


Regards, 
Benjamin


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Re: HTML to Markdown and >/< entities

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 28 July 2017 at 20:14, Benjamin Ullrich <bulirich-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm new to pandoc and currently experimenting to convert from HTML to
> Markdown. For this I have created the following sample input text:
>
> text&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>strong</strong> <em>emphasize</em> &gt; &amp; &lt;
> &copy; text <a href="http://domain.test">Link Title</a>
>
> My expectation for the result would be:
>
> text  **strong** *emphasize* > & < © text [Link Title](http://domain.test)
>
> Instead, running pandoc like:
>
> pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict --normalize --wrap none /tmp/pandoc_input
>
> where /tmp/pandoc_input contains the above mentioned text produces the
> following output:
>
> text  **strong** *emphasize* &gt; & &lt; © text [Link
> Title](http://domain.test)
>
> All looks fine except &gt; and &lt; are not converted as I would expect.
>
> My current system:
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> pandoc 1.16.0.2
>
> I also tried with pandoc 1.19.1 from Ubuntu Artful, same problem.
>
> I also tried with pandoc 1.12.0.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There &gt; and &lt;
> are converted but preceded with a \ which is also not what I would expect:
>
> text  **bold** *italic* \> & \< © text [Link Title](http://domain.test)
>
>
> Am I just missing something here? Should it work as I expect or is my
> expectation wrong? Any input on what could be the problem or how to
> circumvent the issue would be appreciated.

Markdown allows for inline html, so if you want > or < you do need to
escape them; the behaviour of how they are escaped by the Markdown
writer seems to have changed though.

>
> Regards,
> Benjamin
>
>
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Re: HTML to Markdown and >/< entities

[John MacFarlane]

We need to escape `<` and `>` in general, since these
can have special meanings in Markdown (autolinks,
raw HTML).

We could use either `\<` or `&lt;`; we used the latter
because the former doesn't work with the original
Markdown.pl and derivatives (such as showndown,
python markdown, etc.).

I think it would make sense, though, to use `\<`
and `\>` when `all_symbols_escapable` is set.
I'm going to implement that change.

Re: HTML to Markdown and >/< entities

[Melroch]

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Den 30 jul 2017 22:43 skrev "John MacFarlane" <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:

We need to escape `<` and `>` in general, since these
can have special meanings in Markdown (autolinks,
raw HTML).

We could use either `\<` or `&lt;`; we used the latter
because the former doesn't work with the original
Markdown.pl and derivatives (such as showndown,
python markdown, etc.).

I think it would make sense, though, to use `\<`
and `\>` when `all_symbols_escapable` is set.
I'm going to implement that change.


I'm glad to hear that. I've been postfiltering generated markdown to
achieve that for some time.

Thanks!

/bpj





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