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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ A pseudo example:
Inline Patterns {: #inlinepatterns }
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-Inline Patterns implement the inline HTML element syntax for Markdown such as
+Inline Patterns implement the inline HTML element syntax for Markdown such as
`*emphasis*` or `[links](http://example.com)`. Pattern objects should be
instances of classes that inherit from `markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern` or
one of its children. Each pattern object uses a single regular expression and
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ must have the following methods:
Accepts a match object and returns an ElementTree element of a plain
Unicode string.
+Also, Inline Patterns can define the property `ANCESTOR_EXCLUDES` with either
+a list or tuple of undesirable ancestors. The pattern should not match if it
+would cause the content to be a descendant of one of the defined tag names.
+
Note that any regular expression returned by `getCompiledRegExp` must capture
the whole block. Therefore, they should all start with `r'^(.*?)'` and end
with `r'(.*?)!'`. When using the default `getCompiledRegExp()` method