Markdown syntax is not processed within span-level tags.

[jornvandebeek]

The markdown spec specifies "Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax is processed within span-level tags.", yet maruku does not adhere to this rule. Any markdown within html tags seems to be ignored:

Maruku.new("<span>*hello*</span>").to_html

Generates:

"<span>*hello*</span>"

Edit:Added code tags

[pelegri]

On the other hand, whatever is being used to process GFM in this comment, correctly processes markedown inside spans, see below

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[bhollis]

Fixed on master.

[distler]

I believe the fix is not (completely) correct.

<span>*hello*</span>

<p><span>*hello*</span></p>

should be parsed as

<p><span><em>hello</em></span></p>
<p><span>*hello*</span></p>

which is not what Maruku trunk does. There's a (partial?) fix on my branch. But I don't think it handles Markdown inside of nested span-level elements as Gruber intends (?).

[bhollis]

@distler you're absolutely right. Testing other engines, it looks like the rule is that if there's a bare HTML element, and it's a block element, then nothing should be parsed within it. If it's HTML within Markdown, or a bare HTML element that's a span element, then it does get Markdown parsed within it.

I'll reopen this, add some tests, and fix the logic.

[distler]

As is frequently the case, the intended behaviour is not entirely clear.

<span>*hello*</span>

<p><span>*hello*</span></p>

<span>**hello** <span>*goodbye*</span></span>

It's pretty unambiguous that the first two should be parsed as

<p><span><em>hello</em></span></p>
<p><span>*hello*</span></p>

It's not entirely clear how the 3rd one is supposed to be parsed, but "most" Markdown interpreters seem to parse it as

<p><span><strong>hello</strong> <span><em>goodbye</em></span></span></p>

whereas my implementation (currently) treats it as

<p><span><strong>hello</strong> <span>*goodbye*</span></span></p>

[distler]

I wrote:

There's a (partial?) fix on my branch. But I don't think it handles Markdown inside of nested span-level elements as Gruber intends (?).

Fixed properly, now.

[bhollis]

Fixed in your branch? Let me know if you need a hand to bring the changes over here in a PR.

[distler]

Fix is now on trunk.