<img src="http://..."> tag causes parser error

[pcbdev]

Hi,

I tried some markdown processors and all parsed img-tags properly. But somehow, I got a Parser exception because the parser wouldn't accept the ":" from "http://"

example:
(edit: uhm ... this editor directly replaces the <img ... with the image, so it obviously is valid in Markdown) ... but you certainly understand what I mean ...

caused:
Exception in thread "main" org.tautua.markdownpapers.parser.ParseException: Encountered " ":" ": "" at line 32, column 14.
Was expecting one of:
......

Thx in advance for helping me here

All the best,
Thomas

[lruiz]

hi, which version are you using?

Try it with version 1.2.2

[lruiz]

Does v1.2.2 solve the problem?

[pcbdev]

Hi,

sorry for the late answer.

I setup a new clean java project and it doesn't produce a parser error anymore.

But strangely, it just replaces > with > and doesn't process any markdown elements, so clearly, something went wrong.

I used the latest 1.2.2 jar.

Is it possible to attach some code here?

Thomas

[pcbdev]

Ah okay, I figured out what went wrong ...

I tried to use my < img > tag again and the processor was confused about not having < /img > at the end of the image. So, it seems to depend on valid xhtml? This would certainly be a problem for all ...

There also were blockquotes within the markdown text > and it got even more confused ... It stopped processing markdown at all and just did html escaping

Sample:

<img src="http://avatars.ravelrycache.com/Nene/3995496/DieWeihnachtswaesche_large.jpg">
Using this tool
---------------
This page lets you create HTML by entering text in a simple format that's easy to read and write.
  - Type Markdown text in the left window
  - See the HTML in the right
Markdown is a lightweight markup language based on the formatting conventions that people naturally use in email.:
> The overriding design goal for Markdown's
> or formatting instructions.

output:

<img src="http://avatars.ravelrycache.com/Nene/3995496/DieWeihnachtswaesche_large.jpg">

Using this tool
---------------

This page lets you create HTML by entering text in a simple format that's easy to read and write.

  - Type Markdown text in the left window
  - See the HTML in the right

Markdown is a lightweight markup language based on the formatting conventions that people naturally use in email.:

&gt; The overriding design goal for Markdown's
&gt; or formatting instructions.
</img>

The problem on this behaviour is that noone will ever use clean xhtml when using tags ...

Thomas

[lruiz]

In fact markdown can handle images perfectly, the same for <hr> and <br>.

for example:

 <img src="http://avatars.ravelrycache.com/Nene/3995496/DieWeihnachtswaesche_large.jpg"> 

could be written in markdown as

 ![alt](http://avatars.ravelrycache.com/Nene/3995496/DieWeihnachtswaesche_large.jpg

But I got your point here, some implementations can handle tags no properly closed and others only handle well formed tags(perhaps that maintains the simplicity of the parser), I think some sort of documentation that explains the syntax that markdownpapers follows should help.