commonmark-spec

commonmark-spec copied to clipboard

Attributes Extension

1

I realize this pull request may be a bit premature, but I wanted to put it out there for people to have a look and give feedback. (Otherwise just merge...

mb21

Entities

4

As noted in [this thread](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/spec-issues-character-entity-references/2306), it might be desirable to change what the spec says about entities. Arguably the spec should not require that entities be replaced (in the parsing...

jgm

Spec should not start an HTML block for void elements

1

Void elements as [described in the HTML spec](http://w3c.github.io/html/syntax.html#void-elements) should not start a [CommonMark HTML block](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.26/#html-block), because void elements cannot have any content. The void elements are: > area base br...

glebm

List item rules should have anchors

3

Looking at the spec, under [List items](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.25/#list-items), I wish that the 6 rules ("1. Basic case", ...) had anchors, so that I can link to them from an implementation for...

srawlins

Tabs and indentation removal

7

I think it would be nice to clarify the interplay between [tabs](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.23/#tabs) and the indentation removal in [fenced code blocks](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.23/#fenced-code-blocks). What exactly gets removed? Example: `````` ⋅⋅``` →→foo ⋅→⋅bar ⋅⋅→baz...

gagern

Characters should be Unicode scalar values not Unicode code points.

15

It seems that the standard is defined regardless of the actual Unicode encoding scheme which is a good idea. However 333c7713fda24fe3444a59b664e3ca55fd45b32c defines a character to be any [Unicode code point](http://unicode.org/glossary/#code_point)....

dbuenzli

Raw HTML does not support HTML5 attribute names

6

HTML5 attribute names are specified as: > Attribute names must consist of one or more characters other than the space > characters, U+0000 NULL, U+0022 QUOTATION MARK ("), U+0027 >...

srawlins

Spec is unclear on how to tell apart fenced code block and code span

3

Per the spec, a fenced code block is started by a line that contains 0-3 spaces, 3 or more backticks, then 0+ non-backtick characters. It's ended by a line that...

tabatkins

Consider preventing autolinks in links

1

#### Background The CommonMark spec prevents “actual” links (those with a reference (e.g., `[x]`), or those with a resource (e.g., `(x "y")`), from occurring inside each other: ```markdown [a [b](c)...

wooorm

Numeric character references: Should HTML spec be followed for codes mapping to control characters

12

The spec [says this](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#decimal-numeric-character-references): > Decimal numeric character references consist of `&#` + a string of 1--7 arabic digits + `;`. > A numeric character reference is parsed as the...

robinst