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My HTML-to-Markdown converter taught me that Markdown flavor is a contract, not a style

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I built the HTML-to-Markdown API with options for heading style (atx vs setext), bullet marker, code fence style, and emphasis delimiters — thinking they were cosmetic. Then a user's RAG pipeline silently broke. Their chunker split documents on ## headings (atx). My API defaulted to setext ( === un…

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  1. 2026-11-05 19:06 · DEV Community — AI
    My PDF-to-Markdown converter taught me that PDFs don't contain tables, only positioned text
  2. 2026-11-05 11:05 · DEV Community — AI
    My HTML-to-Markdown converter taught me that Markdown flavor is a contract, not a style

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