[ANN] Markdown.pl 1.0.2b7

[John Gruber]

Allan Odgaard <29mtuz102 at sneakemail.com> wrote on 8/30/06 at 8:15 AM:


> Was there an advantage to Text::Balanced?


The advantage is that it works with things like:

    <div>
    <div>
    <div>
    foo
    </div>
    <div style=">"/>
    </div>
    <div>bar</div>
    </div>

and I thought it was going to save me from writing tag-balancing
code on my own.

But the problem, as I see it, is that it is hopelessly confused by
tag attributes. When it sees:

    <div id="bar">

it looks for a closing tag like

    </div id="bar">

which is of course silly.

-J.G.