[kramdown-users] block parsing not recursive?

[Matt Neuburg]

I have complete HTML but I want to sweep through it with kramdown so that kramdown can apply smart quotes, turn underlines into <em>, turn [...](...) into <a>, and all that other cool stuff. I can't figure out how to do that. The stuff I try seems to be non-recursive; there are tags it doesn't touch.

(1)

s = <<END
<div markdown="1">
<p>This is a _great_ text</p>
</div>
END

p Kramdown::Document.new(s).to_html
# => "<div>\n  <p>This is a _great_ text</p>\n</div>\n"

Shouldn't markdown="1" work recursively downward, so that _great_ is parsed into <em>?

(2)

Okay, so let's try :parse_block_html instead:

s = <<END
<div markdown>
<p>This is a _great_ text</p>
<table>
<p>This is a _great_ text</p>
</table>
</div>
END

p Kramdown::Document.new(s, :parse_block_html => true).to_html
# => "<div>\n  <p>This is a <em>great</em> text</p>\n  <table>\n<p>This is a _great_ text</p>\n</table>\n</div>\n"

So now we do recurse down into the first <p> tag. But what's up with the <table> tag? It seems to block recursion down.

m.

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