If you put in something such as undefined tags or mismatched tags in .mdwn file, ikiwiki will put <p></p> around them. But ikiwiki will NOT convert < and > to < and >!
<section>
some text
</section>
the output html
<p><section></p> <p>some text</p> <p></section></p>
And another example of mismatched tags:
<div>
some text
</div>
</div>
The out put is:
<div>
some text
</div>
<p></div></p>
This is a bug in markdown. Actually, not converting
<and>in tags is a markdown feature -- markdown allows inserting arbirary html, even if it's made-up tags. And putting paragraph tags around your<section>tag is understandable, since markdown can't know if<section>is intended to be a block-level tag or not. The bug is that it puts the<p>around the trailing<div>-- it does know what a div is, and it should know that's illegal and not do it. I've filed a bug report about that issue alone. If you feel the other things you brought up are bugs, please talk to the markdown maintainer. --Joey