Paragraphs and html integration.

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2012-06-18 à 6:26, Boris Le Ninivin a écrit :


> Now, to step forward to the problem I have :

> 

> In a website, parts of the pages (essentially headers and footers) are often the same. Hence I've added a functionality to my toolkit : inclusion. It is performed when the parser finds "@include filename".

> 

> The problem I have had is that these instructions are wrapped between <p> tags. Indeed I've tried to bypass the problem by many ideas, but since EVERYTHING is wrapped between <p> tags (including doctypes and all!), I get non-compliant html documents (my header defines the doctype and html head body tags too; and my footer closes the body and html tags; but these are wrapped into paragraphs...).

> 

> Since the markdown language is aimed to be "a format for /writing/ for the web." and "not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it.", I think the md language should allow a strong usage of html tags, and even, to have .md files containing 99% of html tags.


Except @include is not an HTML tag at all.

You could instead use XML-style processing instructions, such as <?include blah blah ?>. PHP Markdown should handle them fine regardless of where you put them.



> In the end, on the df website, it is said that "Markdown is smart enough not to add extra (unwanted) |<p>| tags around HTML block-level tags.". So I don't know if it's an implementation problem (related to the PHP port, maybe?), or if it's a design problem, but as far as I know, Markdown is not smart enough to not add unwanted <p> tags.


That's only true for known HTML tags, and only the block-level ones.



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