Failure of LaTex writer to create some links

[jmawhorter]

Original observed behaviour:

A simple HTML snipet like this:

<p>
<a id="test1" href="#test2">test text1</a>
</p>
<p>
<a id="test2" href="#test1">link to text test1</a>
</p>

when converted with this command:

pandoc -s --pdf-engine=xelatex -o tmp.pdf tmp.html

fails to produce working links in the PDF.

Per JGM's helpful analysis of my problem:

The issue is in the LaTeX writer and can be shown by converting
native content:

% pandoc -f native -t latex [Link ("test2",[],[]) [Str "link",Space,Str "to",Space,Str "text",Space,Str "test1"] ("#test1","")] \protect\hyperlink{test1}{link to text test1}

So here the anchor to test2 is lost. But the LaTeX writer CAN
handle this sort of thing, as shown by:

% pandoc -f native -t latex [Span ("test2",[],[]) [Str "hi"] ] \protect\hypertarget{test2}{}{hi}

[jmawhorter]

Thanks for the quick fix. I confirmed this patch fixed my original problem.