TWiki reader dies with "unexpected '9' or '\n'"

[chicks-net]

Explain the problem.

Base file is https://github.com/fini-net/www-fini-net/blob/main/content/CCexhibitA.txt

I run pandoc -f twiki -t commonmark CCexhibitA.txt

I get

Error at "CCexhibitA.txt_chunk_chunk" (line 3, column 1):
unexpected '9' or '\n'
expecting end of input or inline

All of the other files in this directory converted with this command.

• Folding the lines to be shorter and removing random 9's made no difference.
• Removing the head matter does not matter.
• Removing the 9 heading does not help. Removing those lines at the top does not effect the line noted in the error message.
• --verbose did not change the output
• --log did not produce a log (separate bug?)

Pandoc version?

% pandoc --version
pandoc 3.6.4
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: /Users/chicks/.local/share/pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2024 John MacFarlane. Web: https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Installed on MacOS with homebrew.

[jgm]

By bisection I determined that the line in question is 96 Mowat Avenue in

<blockquote><strong>TUCOWS Inc.

96 Mowat Avenue

Toronto, Ontario

M6K 3M1

Attention:&#65533; Legal Affairs</strong></blockquote>

I have nothing to do with the twiki reader, but I suspect the issue is that the parser for <strong> elements is expecting inline content without paragraph breaks. Removing these blank lines in the input should solve it.

--log only logs warnings and info messages. In this case you didn't get any of these, just an error which stops execution.

[chicks-net]

Removing the <strong> tags fixed it. fini-net/www-fini-net#3

Thanks for finding the 9 that was causing the problem.

I'm going to leave this open in case this is actually a bug you want to fix, but my problem is 💯 % solved.