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# The markdown flavour
The grammar of the extended markdown `adfToMarkdown` emits and `markdownToAdf` parses. Plain
CommonMark is a subset with two carve-outs: literal text that matches directive syntax below or
opens a pipe table is claimed by the flavour (escape the `:` or `|` to keep it literal) — and
one gap: a CommonMark image fits only as its own title-less paragraph — mid-text and titled
images are named errors. The emitted form is contract (AGENTS.md §8). Per-node syntaxes build on
this grammar in the sections below (inline nodes and marks: todo.md 1c).
CommonMark is a subset with three carve-outs: literal text that matches directive syntax below,
opens a pipe table or runs `~~` is claimed by the flavour (escape the `:`, `|` or `~` to keep
it literal) — and one gap: a CommonMark image fits only as its own title-less paragraph —
mid-text and titled images are named errors. The emitted form is contract (AGENTS.md §8).
Per-node syntaxes build on this grammar in the sections below.
## Canonical form
`adfToMarkdown` emits exactly one spelling; every CommonMark variant of the same document
normalizes to it through the round-trip.
- Emphasis `_em_`, strong `**strong**`; `*` replaces `_` only where `_` cannot parse
(intra-word).
- Emphasis `_em_`, strong `**strong**`, strike `~~strike~~`; `*` replaces `_` only where `_`
cannot parse (intra-word).
- Bullet lists `- `; ordered lists incrementing `1.` `2.` `3.`, the first number taken from the
node's `order` attribute. Continuation lines align with the first character after the marker
(two spaces for `- `, three for `1. `); blank lines inside an item are empty lines. Lists are
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## Directives
One grammar for everything CommonMark lacks. A directive name is `[a-z][A-Za-z0-9]*` — the ADF
node names. Recognition is syntactic and name-set-independent: anything matching the forms below
parses as a directive regardless of whether the name is known, and an unknown name is an error
result naming it — so output an old emitter escaped stays escaped, and erroring input gaining
meaning later is MINOR, never a reparse (§8). The name `adf` is reserved for the opaque carry, as
both directive name and fence info string.
node and mark names. Recognition is syntactic and name-set-independent: anything matching the
forms below parses as a directive regardless of whether the name is known, and an unknown name is
an error result naming it — so output an old emitter escaped stays escaped, and erroring input
gaining meaning later is MINOR, never a reparse (§8). The name `adf` is reserved for the opaque
carry, as both directive name and fence info string.
**Inline**: `:name[content]{attrs}`, on one line — an inline directive never spans lines.
`[content]` is inline markdown; brackets inside balance as in CommonMark link text, `\]` for a
literal bracket. Each node's section says whether content and attrs are required. `:` opens a
literal bracket. Each section below says whether content and attrs are required. `:` opens a
directive only when the name is followed immediately by `[` or `{`, and `{attrs}` must follow
`]` (or the name) with no gap — anything else (`10:30`, `:smile:`, a stray `{…}` in text) is
literal text.
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**The CommonMark image.** A paragraph whose entire inline content is one image `![alt](url)` is
a `mediaSingle` with attrs exactly `{"layout":"center"}` holding an `external` `media``url`
from the destination, `alt` the description's plain-text content when non-empty. `adfToMarkdown` emits the image
form for exactly that shape — those attrs and no others, no marks, no caption. An image amid
other text, or one carrying a title, is a named error (ADF has a slot for neither).
from the destination, `alt` the description's plain-text content when non-empty. `adfToMarkdown`
emits the image form for exactly that shape — those attrs and no others, no marks, no caption. An
image amid other text, or one carrying a title, is a named error: `mediaInline` carries a media
`collection` + `id`, never a URL, and no media node carries a title.
### Tables
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```
::syncBlock {localId=0198f3a2-af74-7e91-b26c-70b15f4d9ec3 resourceId="ari:cloud:confluence:site/page/123"}
```
## Inline nodes
Attributes and the carry fallback read as in the block sections, the carry in its inline form. Of
the six nodes below, those with a `text` attribute spell it in the content slot as plain text:
content parsing to anything but one unmarked text node is a named error, absent content is the
absent attribute, and a `text` key in `{attrs}` is a named error. The rest take no content.
- `date``localId` (string), `timestamp` (string, epoch milliseconds).
- `emoji``id` (string), `localId` (string), `shortName` (string, `:name:`), `text` (string).
- `inlineCard``data` (json), `localId` (string), `url` (string); a card carries one or the
other, never both.
- `mediaInline``alt` (string), `collection` (string), `data` (json), `height` (number), `id`
(string), `localId` (string), `occurrenceKey` (string), `type` (`file` `image` `link`), `width`
(number).
- `mention``accessLevel` (`APPLICATION` `CONTAINER` `NONE` `SITE`), `id` (string), `localId`
(string), `text` (string), `userType` (`APP` `DEFAULT` `SPECIAL`).
- `status``color` (`blue` `green` `neutral` `purple` `red` `yellow`), `localId` (string),
`style` (string), `text` (string); content required.
```
:status[In review]{color=yellow} — :mention[@Mikael]{id=01a032c3-7a7c-775f-a730-2d79351338b4}
Shipped :emoji[🎉]{shortName=":tada:"} on :date{timestamp=1756080000000}.
```
**Whitespace CommonMark cannot hold.** A newline inside a text node, and a space or tab where
CommonMark strips or refuses one — a block's inline content edges, either side of a line break,
a mark spelling's inner edges, a pipe cell's edges — is spelled `:text{text="…"}`, the reserved
key carrying the node's text, escaped by the attribute grammar and never literal: pipe cells trim
and pad. The emitter wraps the whitespace run alone and leaves the rest plain text;
`markdownToAdf` merges adjacent text nodes carrying identical marks (AGENTS.md §2).
```
:text{text=" "}Two leading spaces held, and one text node split:text{text="\n"}over two lines.
```
## Marks
An inline node's marks and a text node's ride the spelling wrapped around them, never the block
sections' reserved `marks` key. `code`, `em`, `link`, `strike` and `strong` keep their markdown
spellings, which hold no attributes beyond `link`'s `href` and `title`. The other four are inline
directives, content required:
- `border``color` (string, `#rrggbb` or `#rrggbbaa`), `size` (number, 13).
- `subsup``type` (`sub` `sup`).
- `textColor``color` (string, `#rrggbb`).
- `underline` — no attributes.
A spelling adds its mark to every inline node it wraps, and nesting is the marks array in order,
outermost first: `_:underline[x]_` gives marks `[em, underline]`, `:underline[_x_]` the reverse.
`adfToMarkdown` nests in the order the array holds rather than sorting it — §2's equality
restores the array, not a set — and opens each spelling once over the longest run of adjacent
inline nodes carrying that mark at that depth.
A text node whose marks no nesting spells — a mark type not listed here, an attribute no
spelling holds, or an order putting a code span outside another mark — rides the inline carry
whole. An opaque carry inside a mark spelling is a named error: the carry restores its node
exactly, marks included (AGENTS.md §3).
```
:textColor[**Overdue**]{color="#ae2e24"}, H:subsup[2]{type=sub}O, :underline[signed].
:border[:mediaInline{collection=contentId-98237 id=01a032c3-7a90-70c9-88f6-c60f710eda07}]{color="#091e42" size=2}
```