The HTML reader strips <ol>s within the HTML representation of footnotes #11852

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1. omentic

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   on Sep 9, 2026
2. jgm commented on Sep 9, 2026

   

   jgm

   on Sep 9, 2026

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   This has nothing to do with typst, so let's leave that out.

   meow-i.html:

   <p>meow meow meow<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"
   role="doc-noteref"><sup>1</sup></a> meow meow meow.<a href="#fn2"
   class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2" role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a>
   Meow.</p>
   <section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
   role="doc-endnotes">
   <hr />
   <ol>
   <li id="fn1"><ol>
   <li><p>Meow meow. Meow meow meow</p></li>
   <li><p>Meow meow meow meow</p></li>
   </ol>
   <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></li>
   <li id="fn2"><ul>
   <li><p>Meow</p></li>
   <li><p>Meow meow</p></li>
   <li><p>Meow meow meow meow</p></li>
   </ul>
   <a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></li>
   </ol>
   </section>
   
   

   % pandoc meow-i.html -t native
   % pandoc meow-i.html -t native
   [ Para
       [ Str "meow"
       , Space
       , Str "meow"
       , Space
       , Str "meow"
       , Note []
       , Space
       , Str "meow"
       , Space
       , Str "meow"
       , Space
       , Str "meow."
       , Note
           [ BulletList
               [ [ Para [ Str "Meow" ] ]
               , [ Para [ Str "Meow" , Space , Str "meow" ] ]
               , [ Para
                     [ Str "Meow"
                     , Space
                     , Str "meow"
                     , Space
                     , Str "meow"
                     , Space
                     , Str "meow"
                     ]
                 ]
               ]
           ]
       , SoftBreak
       , Str "Meow."
       ]
   ]
   

   Observation: the first footnote has become empty.
3. jgm commented on Sep 9, 2026

   

   jgm

   on Sep 9, 2026

   Last edited by jgm

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   First hunch: I think this is because in pOrderedList, we have

     isNoteList <- inFootnotes <$> getState

   and then later

     if isNoteList
        then do
          _ <- manyTill (eFootnote <|> pBlank) (pCloses "ol")
          return mempty

   Since <ol> closes <ol>, we stop parsing before we get to the content!
   https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/HTML.hs#L404-L434
4. sunxiuguo

   added a commit that references this issue on Oct 10, 2026

   HTML reader: preserve lists in footnotes

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   This issue will close once commit 4d7c614 is merged into the 'main' branch.

   4d7c614