Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Extra Whitespace in Output

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Artem Yunusov <ne...@gm...> wrote:
> Waylan Limberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>>    >>> markdown.markdown('foo *bar __blah__* baz')
>>>    u'<p>foo <em>bar <strong>blah</strong>\n  </em> baz</p>'
>>>
>>> What's up with the newline and space between the closing tags
>>> ``</strong>`` & ``</em>``? Is that from the (IMO unnecessary)
>>> ``IndentTree`` function or something in
>>> ``Markdown._processPlaceholders``? I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I just realized that that is the output we were getting before my
>> change to the inline placeholder. Weird! IMO that is not correct. We
>> need to loose that extra whitespace. I realize it's irrelevant in the
>> browser, but no other markdown implementation does that. Either the
>> indentTree function needs to only work on block level elements or it
>> needs to go away.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, it's because of indentETree function. We don't have now any other
> way of managing output, maybe in future releases ElementTree will get
> some pretty print function, but there is no such for now. So we should
> modify indentETree, but we shouldn't throw it away :)

Yeah, I realize that now. Still getting used to ElementTree.

> Looked at your
> placeholder branch, now extractId looks much prettier and cleaner :)

Good, then I understood how it works correctly. I'll merge it in when
I get a chance.





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