the behavior of tags-starting-with-alpha-/-! was not like that of the reference implementation; fixed (in a very script-kiddy leaky fashion which I can't resolve with a runtime flag thanks to the 32 bit flags field in the 2.x series :-(

generate.c

@@ -1046,49 +1046,36 @@ process_possible_link(MMIOT *f, int size)
 static int
 maybe_tag_or_link(MMIOT *f)
 {
-    int c, size;
-    int maybetag = 1;
+    int c, size=0;
 
     if ( is_flag_set(&f->flags, MKD_TAGTEXT) )
 	return 0;
 
-    for ( size=0; (c = peek(f, size+1)) != '>'; size++) {
-	if ( c == EOF )
-	    return 0;
-	else if ( c == '\\' ) {
-	    maybetag=0;
-	    if ( peek(f, size+2) != EOF )
-		size++;
-	}
-	else if ( isspace(c) )
-	    break;
-	else if ( ! (c == '/'
-		     || (is_flag_set(&f->flags, MKD_GITHUBTAGS) && (c == '-' || c == '_'))
-		     || isalnum(c) ) )
-	    maybetag=0;
-    }
+    c = peek(f, 1);
 
-    if ( size ) {
-	if ( maybetag || (size >= 3 && strncmp(cursor(f), "!--", 3) == 0) ) {
-
-	    /* It is not a html tag unless we find the closing '>' in
-	     * the same block.
-	     */
-	    while ( (c = peek(f, size+1)) != '>' )
+    if ( isalpha(c) || c == '/' || c == '!' ) {
+	/* By decree of Markdown.pl *this is a tag* */
+	while ( (c=peek(f,size+1)) != '>' )
 		if ( c == EOF )
 		    return 0;
 		else
 		    size++;
+    }
 
+    if ( size > 0 ) {
+	if ( process_possible_link(f, size) ) {
+	    shift(f, size+1);
+	    return 1;
+	}
+	else {
+	    int i;
+	    
 	    if ( forbidden_tag(f) )
 		return 0;
 
-	    Qchar('<', f);
-	    while ( ((c = peek(f, 1)) != EOF) && (c != '>') )
-		Qchar(pull(f), f);
-	    return 1;
-	}
-	else if ( !isspace(c) && process_possible_link(f, size) ) {
+	    for ( i=0; i <= size+1; i++ )
+		Qchar(peek(f, i), f);
+
 	    shift(f, size+1);
 	    return 1;
 	}

tests/automatic.t

@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ try 'http:foo/bar'   '<http:foo/bar>'   '<p><a href="http:foo/bar">http:foo/bar<
 try '</foo/bar>'     '</foo/bar>'       '<p></foo/bar></p>'
 match '<orc@pell.portland.or.us>' '<orc@pell.portland.or.us>' '<a href='
 match '<orc@pell.com.>' '<orc@pell.com.>' '<a href='
-try 'invalid <orc@>' '<orc@>' '<p>&lt;orc@></p>'
+try 'invalid <orc@>' '<orc@>' '<p><orc@></p>'
 try 'invalid <@pell>' '<@pell>' '<p>&lt;@pell></p>'
-try 'invalid <orc@pell>' '<orc@pell>' '<p>&lt;orc@pell></p>'
-try 'invalid <orc@.pell>' '<orc@.pell>' '<p>&lt;orc@.pell></p>'
-try 'invalid <orc@pell.>' '<orc@pell.>' '<p>&lt;orc@pell.></p>'
+try 'invalid <orc@pell>' '<orc@pell>' '<p><orc@pell></p>'
+try 'invalid <orc@.pell>' '<orc@.pell>' '<p><orc@.pell></p>'
+try 'invalid <orc@pell.>' '<orc@pell.>' '<p><orc@pell.></p>'
 match '<mailto:orc@pell>' '<mailto:orc@pell>' '<a href='
 match '<mailto:orc@pell.com>' '<mailto:orc@pell.com>' '<a href='
 match '<mailto:orc@>' '<mailto:orc@>' '<a href='

tests/githubtags.t

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ MARKDOWN_FLAGS=
 
 SRC='<element-name>content</element-name>'
 
-try 'github tags disabled by default' \
-"$SRC" \
-'<p>&lt;element-name>content&lt;/element-name></p>'
+# try 'github tags disabled by default' \
+# "$SRC" \
+# '<p>&lt;element-name>content&lt;/element-name></p>'
 
 try -fgithubtags 'github tags' \
 "$SRC" \

tests/muñoz.t

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ try 'id_000177_06' '<dl
     </d>00000</p>'
 try 'id_000182_06' '<p></>-' '<p><p></>-</p>'
 try 'id_000189_06' '<ol></o>#0' '<p><ol></o>#0</p>'
-try 'id_000190_06' '<p/</>*' '<p>&lt;p/</>*</p>'
+try 'id_000190_06' '<p/</>*' '<p><p/</>*</p>'
 try 'id_000192_06' '<div </di>*' '<p><div </di>*</p>'
 try 'id_000197_06' '<ul></u
  >0' '<p><ul>&lt;/u</p>
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ try 'id_000209_06' '<!--
     -->00000</p>'
 try 'id_000211_06' '<p></>+' '<p><p></>+</p>'
 try 'id_000219_06' '<!-->*' '<p><!-->*</p>'
-try 'id_000222_06' '<p/</>-' '<p>&lt;p/</>-</p>'
+try 'id_000222_06' '<p/</>-' '<p><p/</>-</p>'
 try -ftabstop 'id_000223_06' '<!--
 	-->00000' '<p><!--
     -->00000</p>'