Issue with < and > when attached to a word

[rubenmamo]

Using the below text in markdown

There is a missing word <Test> here!

shows

There is a missing word here!

Shouldn't the < and > be converted to < and > ?

This only happens when the < is attached to the word, so

There is not a missing word < Test > here!
There is not a missing word < Test> here!
There is not a missing word <Test here!
This does not even appear

shows as

There is not a missing word < Test > here! There is not a missing word < Test> here! There is not a missing word

[tivie]

The following cases behave as expected:

Case 1

There is not a missing word < Test > here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word &lt; Test &gt; here!</p>

Case 2

There is not a missing word <test> here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word <test></test> here!</p>

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The bug lies in in case 3:

Case 3

There is not a missing word <test here!

should be converted to:

<p>There is not a missing word &lt;test here!</p>

instead it's being converted into:

<p>There is not a missing word <test here!<p></test></p>

[rubenmamo]

Shouldn't it however only change <test> to an HTML element only if it is a valid HTML element?

[tivie]

Html, namely xhtml, allows custom html tags.

[tivie]

Update: I'm still working on this bug as it's proving a little more difficult to tackle as first expected.

For now, a workaround is to add a space after <

There is not a missing word < test here!

[rubenmamo]

thanks for the update

[rubenmamo]

Do you have an update on this?

[tivie]

Currently, I couldn't find a simple way of fixing this without rewriting the parsing engine. The problem is that the fix slows down the parsing engine too much, since it requires a bunch of lookaheads.

I can't give you a ETA on this, but for now the issue is in "pending" status.

[tivie]

This issue should be fixed now. Took me a lot of time because I had to rewrite a bit of the parser logic.

Here's how it works now:

Case 1

There is not a missing word < Test > here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word &lt; Test &gt; here!</p>

Case 2

There is not a missing word <test> here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word <test> here!</p>

Case 3

There is not a missing word test> here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word test&gt; here!</p>

Case 4

There is not a missing word <test here!

converts to:

<p>There is not a missing word &lt;test here!</p>