trentm / trentm/python-markdown2
List with empty items corner case generates invalid HTML
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Description
The following snippet
1.
2.
generates
<ol>
<li>
<ol>
<ol>
<li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
which is not valid HTML.
GitHub, for example, correctly generates
<ol>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ol>
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Research direction
The issue provides a minimal markdown list reproducer and the expected HTML; start by running that snippet through markdown2's list-rendering entry point. Confirm the result contains two empty sibling
- with valid nesting.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html, markdown, python
- Domain
- content, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100