Re: MediaWiki to Markdown conversion

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Take a look at the pandoc user's manual to see the different
table formats supported by pandoc's markdown.

Markdown pipe tables assume content that fits on one line in each
cell.  In your document the <br> is parsed as a LineBreak, which
makes the content unable to fit in a pipe table cell.  (A
Markdown line break  involves a newline.)

So your document can't be rendered as a pipe table.  It can
be rendered as a grid table, which is what you're getting.
If you're using pandoc to convert the result, this should be
fine.  If you want it to work e.g. on GitHub, that won't work;
you need either a pipe table (which won't work for your source)
or fall back to HTML (which is what pandoc will do if you disable
grid tables).


sal <s.lorente-2HksPz9409E@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Thank you John.
>
> I'm not sure I understand.
> Is it possible to get that table somehow converted in such a case?
> Is there anything I could do?
>
>
> On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 2:31:53 AM UTC+2, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's not split into many different tables. 
>> It's one table in pandoc's "grid table" format. 
>>
>> Why wasn't a "pipe table" used?  Because this table contains 
>> content that can't be represented in a pipe table:  possibly 
>> the raw HTML hard line breaks (<br>) in the cell with all the 
>> options. 
>>
>>
>> sal <s.lo...-2HksPz9409E@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>>
>> > Hi again, 
>> > 
>> > I'm having again problems with tables when migrating other documents 
>> from 
>> > MediaWiki to RemarkUp (or just trying to normal Markdown). 
>> > I have tried different combinations from 
>> > https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables without success, I don't get a 
>> (more 
>> > or less) correct table. 
>> > 
>> > Now, when using 
>> > pandoc source -f mediawiki -t 
>> markdown-simple_tables+pipe_tables-multiline_tables 
>> > -o outcome 
>> > the original table gets splitted into many different tables. 
>> > 
>> > Please find attached the source file used and the outcome file I get. 
>> > 
>> > Again, any suggestion on what to do is very welcome... 
>> > 
>> > Thank you! 
>> > 
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