preserving internal HTML link identifiers for github markdown

preserving internal HTML link identifiers for github markdown

[Rich & Sue Hock]

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I am using pandoc to convert HTML to Markdown to populate a github wiki. 
The only pandoc option I am using is
    -t gfm

I would like to keep internal link identifiers from the HTML to arbitrary 
places on the wiki page (as opposed to relying on automatically generated 
heading identifiers).

When I encounter a document anchor like this in the source HTML:
   <a id="fred">fred</a>
Pandoc converts it to this in the output:
   <span id="fred">fred</span>
However, github wiki does not render this as a valid target, so my URL
    https://github.com/name/repo/wiki#fred
does not jump to the proper point on the wiki page. However, if it was left 
as an anchor instead of a span, i.e.
   <a id="fred">fred</a>
Then github would render it properly and the URL would jump to the correct 
position in the document.
The internal link would also work if coded in a "div" tag:
   <div id="fred">fred</div>

Is there a way in pandoc to keep "a" tags with an id, or perhaps convert 
them to "div", rather than converting them to "span"?

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