How to avoid formatting <pre> tag?

[ibnishak]

In general, is there a way to instruct the reader not to touch a particular tag?

[Arteneko]

I'm encountering the same problem, as I'd want to have every content inside <pre><code> tags HTML-escaped.

[RadhiFadlillah]

Hi guys, sorry for late response.

@ibnishak I'm sorry, but I don't think it's possible. The goal of go-readability is to find the readable content and strip all other distractions. So, if go-readability deem a tag as distractions, it will remove it.

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@IvanDelsinne I'm sorry but could you elaborate on your issue ?

[ibnishak]

@RadhiFadlillah My issue was exactly the same one pointed out by Ivan. When I save an article from Medium or any site with code snippets in it, the pre tag processing makes it completely unreadable. In addition, sometimes the snippets are hosted in GitHub and embedded in the article, so that iframe need be escaped too.

I understand there would be multiple cases like these for different people. So if users could pass something like an -exclude flag, that would solve the issue in general.

That is the whole of my case. If you still deem it inappropriate for the project, you may close the issue.