buggy HTML from nested lists w/ paragraphs

[Tomas Doran]

On 6 Apr 2008, at 05:45, Tom Humiston wrote:

> I ran into a weird problem while writing my own little guide to  

> Markdown (using Markdown, of course). The document is mostly made  

> of list items in nested ul's. As I neared the end, I found (via  

> MarsEdit's preview) that in place of two sections of content,  

> Markdown had begun to generate gibberish strings like this:

>

> 	aa9ca05a7c006bc5e5c091c00aee0cd7

>

> After weeding through different sections of my text to find an  

> offending pattern (and even using TextWrangler to search for stray  

> Unicode and the like), I found that it seems to result from a  

> particular sequence, or type of sequence, involving headers, list  

> items, and paragraphs, regardless of their content.

>

> With all non-offending content weeded out, and 'text(n)'  

> substituted for each line of actual content, I'm left with the text  

> below, still generating the two errors. Each line of code has a  

> blank line above it. Removing the blank lines or the final item,  

> text13, is enough to kill either or both of the errors, while  

> removal of other items kills one error or the other. (Removal of  

> text8 kills neither, but I left it in case it's helpful for  

> diagnosing the problem.)


<snip>


> The versions of Markdown I'm running this through are version 1.0.1  

> of the Perl script from daringfireball, and whatever's included in  

> MarsEdit 2.1.3(1404).

>

> Any ideas?


Markdown 1.0.2b8 fixed this bug, as has Text::Markdown.

I'd recommend that you upgrade to one of these..

Various other implementations also get it right:

http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%23+text1%0D%0A%0D%0A++* 
+text2%0D%0A%0D%0A++++*+text3%0D%0A%0D%0A++++text4%0D%0A%0D%0A%23%23 
+text5%0D%0A%0D%0A++*+text6%0D%0A%0D%0A++++*+text7%0D%0A%0D%0A++text8% 
0D%0A%0D%0A%23%23+text9%0D%0A%0D%0A++*+text10%0D%0A%0D%0A++++*+text11% 
0D%0A%0D%0A++++text12%0D%0A%0D%0A++++text13

Cheers
Tom