Implementation notes

Note

Refer to the CommonMark Specification v0.30 for descriptions of the terms used by this document.

Autolink vs link clash

An autolink is something like <https://foo.bar> and a link is something like [foo](https://foo.bar).

MD4C parser doesn’t distinguish between an autolink and a link whose text and destination is the same. So, mdpo will treat all links whose text and destination is the same as autolinks.

If a link has inside his text markup characters, even if its content if the same as its target, will be treated as different and rendered as a link. So, in practice: if a link text has markup characters, can’t be an autolink.

Link cloisterers

• Collapsed reference links like [foo][] and links with same text and href like [foo][foo] are both normalized to [foo] due to MD4C parser limitations.

• Although a link title can be wrapped between different characters, mdpo will use double quotes characters " always.