Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] blockquotes

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

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Gerry LaMontagne
<gjl...@al...> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is getting into pain-in-the-a** territory, but I've got
> something that I think is less a bug and more a matter of
> interpretation.  The following example:
>
> 1. > Quote1
> 2. > Quote2
>
> is turned into a list with blockquotes in the list items by
> python-markdown.  However, markdown.pl does not create blockquotes.
> Instead, it encodes the '>' character as html entities and treats the
> list item as text:
>
> <li>&gt; Quote1</li>
>
> I'm aware that this is out in the weeds as far as usage is concerned.
> But, seeing as I found it, I thought I'd do diligence and ask if it's
> something that you want dealt with.
>

At some point in the past, John Gruber had stated that there may be as
yet undiscovered bugs in his implementation and that just because his
implementation acts a certain way, doesn't mean it is always correct.
In other words, follow the syntax rules, not his code when the two
appear to be in conflict. I believe this may fit that type of
situation.

I would call this a bug in markdown.pl (and any other implementation
that follows it), not a bug in python-markdown.

If anyone feels differently, please speak up.

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Waylan Limberg