[DownView] Support for internal links?

[antonjazz]

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What did you do?

I'm trying to use Down on markdown with internal links. An example is this link to text at the bottom of this page.

I tried multiple standard ways of specifying the link and destination anchor, including:

• [link text](#anchorname) and <a name="anchorname"></a>
  (This complies with the CommonMark spec so it should work, right?)
• [link text](#section-name) and ## Section Name
  (This is a common standard when linking to a section, though it's not part of CommonMark standard.)

What did you expect to happen?

I expected the links to function. They function here and the first one functions on the commonmark dingus.

What happened instead?

The links did nothing.

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PS here is the destination of the link I used as an example earlier on.

[iwasrobbed]

Happy to accept a pull request with this feature 👍

[antonjazz]

Ah, I wish I were at that point! I'm brand new to github and almost brand new to iOS.
I appreciate the work you're doing and I look forward to the time when I'll be able to help contribute!

As far as this issues goes, I was surprised to find that not even
<a href="#anchor">linking text</a> and <a name="anchor">linked-to text</a>
worked when I ran it through Down. Since that's just standard HTML, which I thought was passed through unchanged, I figured that there was some special link processing going on that you might be able to tell me about… I guess not?

Thank you, in any case—for this and for the great cocoapod!

Anton

[antonjazz]

Update: I looked at the HTML code generated from the Markdown by Down and its correct for internal links, so the problem is not in the conversion.

I thought that perhaps the issue was that I needed to set openLinksInBrowser: false in the initializer call. Not only did that not make the internal links function, it didn't seem to change any behavior at all; external links still open in Safari.

[iwasrobbed]

Going to close this out as it hasn't garnered much attention from the community in terms of up votes over the past year. Feel free to open a PR with these changes if you'd like it added