Single quotes replaced with double quotes inside script blocks

[wch]

I'm trying to inline some scripts into a markdown document. I'm running into a problem where single quotes are replaced with double quotes. For example, take this source document:

Title
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The code inside the script block doesn't appear correctly when this is rendered with the rmarkdown package.

<script>
var foo = "<a href='/a'>a</a><input type='checkbox'/>"
</script>

Text Text Text

After running rmarkdown::render on it, the resulting html file has this:

<script>
var foo = "<a href="/a">a</a><input type="checkbox"></input>"
</script>

[jjallaire]

It looks like this a bug in pandoc triggered by the use of --self-contained. I've posted on the pandoc-discuss group to follow up:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/0A_dx9Yhj-s

[hadley]

This may be related to #2, where the contents of block level tags is interpreted as markdown.

[jjallaire]

The fix to Issue #2 didn't make any difference here. Just to make sure there wasn't a bug introduced by some other pandoc extension I changed the format to "markdown_strict" (no pandoc extensions enabled) and this still occurs. I think it's a bug strictly related to --self-contained

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