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What this PR does / why we need it:

Fixes the two follow-ups from #688.

Nested lists were getting flattened because <li>.*?</li> closed at the first nested </li>, so sub-items got promoted and parent steps renumbered. Walk ul/ol/li by depth instead, and unwrap <p> before list conversion so Docusaurus-style items don't come out as 1.\n\ntext.

Quoted > in attributes was leaking into the body (title="a > b"b">…) because tag scans use [^>]*. Mask those before the scans, restore after.

Also keep leading indent when collapsing spaces, otherwise nested list markers get wiped.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #731

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  • npm run lint and npm run format:check pass
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  • Chinese translation updated if English docs changed (or noted why not) (n/a, no docs touched)
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Markdown conversion for nested ordered and unordered lists, multiline items, and incomplete lists.
    • Ordered lists now honor their starting number.
    • Prevented > characters inside quoted HTML attributes from disrupting conversion.
    • Preserved indentation more reliably and left stray < characters in text unchanged.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for nested lists, ordered-list numbering, protected angle characters, encoded values, and stray text symbols.

Signed-off-by: anshumancanrock <anshu.1239.as@gmail.com>
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The Markdown negotiation converter now protects > characters inside quoted HTML attributes and converts nested lists with depth-aware handling. The conversion pipeline preserves indentation and ordered-list start values. Regression tests cover list nesting and HTML attribute parsing.

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Markdown negotiation parsing

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Quoted attribute angle protection
netlify/edge-functions/markdown-negotiation.js, test/markdown-negotiation.test.mjs
The converter protects quoted > characters during HTML extraction and Markdown assembly. Tag scanning skips stray < characters. Tests cover quoted and entity-encoded values.
Nested list conversion
netlify/edge-functions/markdown-negotiation.js, test/markdown-negotiation.test.mjs
convertLists replaces direct regex replacements with depth-aware conversion. It preserves multiline indentation, handles incomplete lists, and honors ordered-list start values. Tests cover nested ordered and unordered lists.

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Markdown conversion still mishandles valid ordered lists declared with start="0", causing those lists to display with the wrong numbering. The impact is localized and the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up fix and regression test.

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- Line 321: Update the HTML processing flow around the `<main>` extraction to
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solid fix, good tests. ci build is green even though the checklist box is empty.

// tag scans don't stop early.
const ATTR_GT = "\u0001";

function findTagClose(html, openIndex) {

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a stray unescaped < in text opens a fake tag here and can mask real tags up to the next >. docusaurus should always emit <, so likely fine, just confirming you considered it.

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return items
.map((item, index) => {
const marker = ordered ? `${index + 1}. ` : `- `;

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ol start="3" is ignored, numbering restarts at 1. rare in docs but easy to read from the open tag.

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done, we read start off the open tag now and number from there. covered with a test.


// Same idea as the block-store marker: hide `>` inside quoted attrs so `[^>]*`
// tag scans don't stop early.
const ATTR_GT = "\u0001";

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if the page body ever contains a literal \u0001 it gets turned into >. a longer private marker would be safer.

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fair point. switched to a longer private-use marker (\uE000ATTRGT\uE000).

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});

it("keeps nested ordered lists nested", async () => {

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no test for a three level list. the recursion should handle it, one case would lock it in.

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added one. also fixed a small indent bug trimStart was wiping on continuation lines past two levels.

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hii @mesutoezdil , please take a look now. Thanks!

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const rawDescription =
html.match(/<meta[^>]+name=["']description["'][^>]+content=["']([^"']*)["'][^>]*>/i)?.[1] ?? "";
html = protectQuotedAngles(html);
const rawTitle = restoreQuotedAngles(html.match(/<title[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/title>/i)?.[1] ?? "");

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the new tests cover the body but not this path. is there a case for a title or meta description whose attribute contains a >?

return -1;
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function protectQuotedAngles(html) {

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this walks every character of the page html on each request, inside an edge function. did you measure the added time on a large docs page?

while ((match = open.exec(html))) {
result += html.slice(cursor, match.index);
const ordered = match[1].toLowerCase() === "ol";
const startAttr = ordered ? match[0].match(/\bstart\s*=\s*["']?(-?\d+)/i)?.[1] : null;

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the -? accepts a negative start, and <ol start="-2"> then emits -2. a, which markdown renders as text rather than a list. i doubt docusaurus ever emits it, but is the sign wanted here?

const rawDescription =
html.match(/<meta[^>]+name=["']description["'][^>]+content=["']([^"']*)["'][^>]*>/i)?.[1] ?? "";
html = protectQuotedAngles(html);
const rawTitle = restoreQuotedAngles(html.match(/<title[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/title>/i)?.[1] ?? "");

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answering my own two earlier questions: i ran the branch. a > inside a title or description attribute comes out right, and 378 KB of html takes about 7 ms, so neither is a problem. the 79 tests pass.

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