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DocBook > MD conversion fails for <emphasis> inside <literal> #1816

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Input DocBook:
right-click <literal><emphasis>{project name}</emphasis></literal>

Output Markdown:
right-click backtick backtick

Issue:
Seems markdown can't cope with italic (emphasis) inside backtick backtick (literal). So not surprising that conversion is wrong.

Potential Solution:
Strip emphasis from inside literals and convert as through emphasis was never there. So conversion processing would do:

right-click <literal><emphasis>{project name}</emphasis></literal>
right-click <literal>{project name}</literal>
right-click backtick{project name}backtick

Conversion Command Used:
pandoc abc.xml -f docbook -t markdown --no-wrap --atx-headers --base-header-level=2 -o abc.md

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