Re: reading html, <h1 class="title"> header ignored

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

I take back one thing I said.  The <h1 class="title"> just
gets skipped; it doesn't get parsed into a metadata title.
If it did, it would appear as a title heading in your ODT
document and I think you'd have no complaints.

So maybe this can be solved by changing the HTML reader to
insert the contents of <h1 class="title"> into the title
metadata, if it hasn't already been populated by a
<title> tag in the header (I assume your document lacks one?)

Mikhail Ramendik <mr-eJ/51bLfIl8ox3rIn2DAYQ@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hello, 
>
> Thank you very much for your response!
>
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:33:24 PM UTC+1, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>
>> One possibility would be to change pandoc's HTML reader so that 
>> <h1 class="title"> is normally parsed as a regular level-1 
>> heading, UNLESS <meta generator="pandoc"> is present in the 
>> head section.  That would allow nice round tripping from pandoc 
>> but not get in the way of other HTML-producers. 
>>
>
>
>> However, it may be that pandoc's current behavior is actually 
>> better in many cases, even when processing HTML produced by 
>> other sources.  So it's quite possible that making this change 
>> would lead to a surge of complaints. (Comments welcome on this.) 
>>
>
> I would suggest that this behaviour become the default, BUT you add a 
> command line option to invoke the present behaviour.
>
> So:
>
> - with <meta generator="pandoc">, process <h1 class="title"> as metadata
> - with --title-metadata (or similar), process <h1 class="title"> as metadata
> - otherwise process <h1 class="title"> as a header
>  
>
>>
>> Another, probably better approach would be to parse 
>> <h1 class="title"> as a metadata title when pandoc is run 
>> with --standalone, but not when pandoc is run in fragment mode.
>
>
> But I want to get a complete ODT document as output. Don't I need to use 
> --standalone? If I do then this fix would do nothing for me.
>  
>
>>
>> A workaround for you would be to preprocess the input, or 
>> run in --standalone mode and use a lua filter that extracts 
>> the metadata title and inserts a level 1 header with its content 
>> at the beginning of the document. 
>>
>
> Preprocessing the input with a mere search and replace, changing 
> class="title" to class="meow", is a simple approach that works. But it is a 
> mandatory extra step.
>
>  Yours, Mikhail Ramendik 
>
>>
>>
>
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