structured-list-md

Guidelines, scripts for authoring structured, machine readable lists in plain Markdown by leveraging HTML.

Guidelines

• The input must be valid markdown.

• The list can be either ordered(numbered) or unordered(bulleted).

• Description is not necessary, but if it's there, it should be preceded and followed by a new line.

• There should not be any newline between items that do not have descriptions, else the markdown parsers will introduce additional p tag after li.

Conversions

• li -> dt

• p -> dd

• ul/ol -> dl

Input Markdown Item List

- Item 1

Description of item 1. 

- Item 2
- Item 3

Intermediate HTML Item List

<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
</ul>
<p>Description of item 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>Item 2</li>
<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>

Final HTML Definition List

<dl>
<dt>Item 1</dt>
</dl>
<dd>Description of item 1.</dd>
<dl>
<dt>Item 2</dt>
<dt>Item 3</dt>
</dl>