Re: Markdown Group - What set of goals?

On 20 November 2012 10:05, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So how would you propose we define actions when going from html5 or
>> javascript to MD,
>> that's what I don't see? What of the mess that is HTML today? Use tagsoup first?
>>
>> In terms of practicality I can't see it being reliable?
>
> Probably should depend on what implementers want. Were it up to me I'd
> say ride with XHTML to minimize the tag soup problem. But that
> battle's already been lost. (Long rant omitted.)

OK. This leaves the unresolved target for html class output. XHTML? HTML vsn ???
I'll open an issues page on the wiki, unless we can agree on XHTML as
the output.


>
> But to the extent we want to worry about the return trip, one general
> approach might be to ask the relevant standard bodies to define a
> markdown-compatible subset profile. By markdown-compatible, I mean the
> core profile we develop.

Sensible approach, are you OK if we defer that until we have a baseline Paul?

regards




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