No Markdown in <div>s or <table>s ?

[david parsons]

In article <3561cc6d0904231309q585644aj4e3ae5321b2443af at mail.gmail.com>,
Dan Dascalescu  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:


>From a utilitarian standpoint, does it benefit anyone that Markdown

>doesn't parse markup inside divs?



    It makes the syntax a little bit clearer not to have that
    special case, and it may stop some screamingly horrible
    parser edgecases.

    Quite a few markdown implementations have extensions to do
    markupable divisions.    None of them are very pretty, and
    that might be enough to keep them out of The Standard(tm).


    >%class:name%
    >I do them as quoted blocks with a magic header.   It works,
    >but it's not going to win any awards for clarity.


    -david parsons