jekyll-relative-links and Liquid's include_relative interact poorly

[brycelelbach]

Describe the bug

If I have one page, a.md that has some relative links in it:

[X](./some/path/to/x.md)

And I use include_relative to include the content of b.md in another page:

{% include_relative a.md %}

In the generated a.html, the links will correctly point to x.html. But on b.html, the links will point to b.md.

[brycelelbach]

This seems to suggest the issue is that include_relative is processed after jekyll-relative-links. I believe that jekyll-relative-links uses a generator; Liquid stuff like include_relative is processed in the stage after generation (the render stage).

[brycelelbach]

I was able to work around this with a post_render hook:

Jekyll::Hooks.register :pages, :post_render do |doc|
  doc.output = doc.output.gsub(/(href="\.\/[^.]*)\.md"/, '\1.html"')
end

Maybe something similar and less hacky could be added to jekyll-relative-links? I'm afraid I don't know enough about Jekyll or Ruby to figure out how to make this less hacky.

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[brycelelbach]

Any update?