1. Summary

It would be nice, if StripHTML or any another extension be able to delete extra p tags inside li.

2. Argumentation

1. It’s extra tags, they aren’t needed.

2. Interline spacing. See the real list, where items 1, 2 and 3 hasn’t p tag, but items 4 and 5 has:

   

   The interline spacing is different. It isn’t the best idea for design.

3. Extra p tags increase a DOM size. A large DOM tree isn’t the best idea.

3. MCVE

1. I have a file KiraList.md:

   1. Kira first
   <!--- Kira comment -->
   1. Kira second

2. python -m markdown KiraList.md:

   <ol>
   <li>Kira first</li>
   </ol>
   <!--- Kira comment -->
   <ol>
   <li>Kira second</li>
   </ol>

   Not good default behavior; I don’t need the second ol.

3. I found the PyPI extension python-markdown-comments; python -m markdown -x mkdcomments KiraList.md:

   <ol>
   <li>
   <p>Kira first</p>
   </li>
   <li>
   <p>Kira second</p>
   </li>
   </ol>

It’s better, but I can’t found, how I can remove extra p tags.

4. Not helped

1. Tidy don’t delete these tags by default. I can’t find any option that do it.
2. Also, I can’t found any plugin for Python Markdown, Pelican (my static site generator) or Grunt that can solve this problem.

Thanks.