Alternative ways to add empty attributes to links?

[PlasmaHH]

I have been trying to get downloading links to work, or better to fix it, since a lot of our files is converted via pandoc. There it automatically sets {:download} for those links which almost works, but the resulting html is download="download" which causes the file that is to be downloaded to be called download.<ext> which is certainly not desired.

I figured out so far that it works by specifying {download=""} but given that pandoc converts it that way, before I change thousands of occurences I wanted to ask if I have overlooked something and there is a tiny bit more concise syntax or a setting to make {:download} work.

[squidfunk]

I don't think there's another way than using download="". However, you could also write an on_page_markdown hook to post-process the Markdown and remove the ="" – should be quite simple. It might also be a good idea to take this to the maintainers of Python Markdown, as this is the project that provides the Attribute Lists implementation.

[kamilkrzyskow]

There is also the option to monkey-patch the inner Markdown implementation using the hook, instead of processing whole text files:

• https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown/blob/33359faa385f59b84cd87df5f4b0996055a482e2/markdown/extensions/attr_list.py#L162-L185