seperating blockquotes (repost)

[european bob]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:54, Már Örlygsson wrote:
> When I attempt to do this in Markdown, I seperate the two `>` blocks 
> with an empty line - like this:
> 
>     > "This is the first quotation."
> 
>     > "This is another, seperate, quotation."

FWIW, xMarkdown processes the above as you would expect. However, it
won't wrap the two items in <p> tags for you.

Are there any hard and fast rules about what is a paragraph, and what is
not?

--bob.