[ckan-dev] How to avoid hyperlink creation when writing down URIs in markdown?

[Mark Wainwright]

I'm sure there is a better way, but this very nasty hack seems to do the trick:

http[]()://example.com/

I've jammed Markdown's radar with some empty markup (an empty link
with no text).

Mark

On 11/12/2013, Jesús Redondo <redondogarciajesus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and sorry for the cross-posting.
>
> I am developing a portal using CKAN 2.0.1
>
> My problem is the following: I want to include some URIs in the descrition
> of the datasets, but I don´t want all of those URIs to be displayed as
> hyperlinks (which is automatically done by the Markdown language). So, is
> there any way to tell the markdown parser this peculiarity?: -" I don´t
> want this URI to be displayed as a hyperlink. "
>
> I guess there must be some kind of escape character or word to avoid the
> markdown parser, and it could make the trick. But I can't figure it out by
> reading its documentation:
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
>
> NOTE: the block code (adding four spaces or ``) also generates hyperlinks,
> so that's not a solution neither (which is funny, because in stackoverflow
> it doesn't generate any link, I guess they use a different Markdown
> parser).
>
> Thank you, I do appreciate the help.
>
> Jesús,
>


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