rawHtmlSpec gets in the way of parsing special links

[jgm]

rawHtmlSpec gets in the way of parsing special links

[jgm]

You want to disable parsing of block-level HTML entirely? You can simply define your own variant of defaultBlockSpecs that leaves out the block HTML parser.

myDefaultBlockSpecs :: (Monad m, IsBlock il bl) => [BlockSpec m il bl]
myDefaultBlockSpecs =
    [ indentedCodeSpec
    , fencedCodeSpec
    , blockQuoteSpec
    , atxHeadingSpec
    , setextHeadingSpec
    , thematicBreakSpec
    , listItemSpec (bulletListMarker <|> orderedListMarker)
    -- , rawHtmlSpec  -- <- leave this out!
    , attributeSpec
    ]

If you want to parse raw HTML blocks, but just not ones that begin with <a34s...> or whatever, then you can modify the block HTML parser.

[srid]

Thanks.

If you want to parse raw HTML blocks, but just not ones that begin with <a34s...> or whatever, then you can modify the block HTML parser.

I suppose this is what I will end up doing. Though it would be nice if there is someway to override the angle-bracket link content parsing without modifying the library.

[jgm]

You don't actually have to modify the library. You can create your own myBlockHtmlSpec that just modifies the standard one a bit (this would only be a few lines of code, I think, because you can use the standard one in the definition), and use this instead of the default one n a custom myDefaultBlockSpecs as above.

[srid]

because you can use the standard one in the definition

Hmm, you mean I can reuse the rawHtmlSpec function? I don't see how though, because it doesn't take any arguments. Actually I'm at the point of forking this function and disabling that ty == 7 case altogether ...

EDIT: I guess I could override blockStart - but I'd still have to re-implement that part, and that startCond func is not exported.

[jgm]

See my comment on your PR.