# File lib/maruku/html.rb, line 78
    def process_markdown_inside_elements(doc)
      # find span elements or elements with 'markdown' attribute
      elts = @fragment.css("[markdown]")

      d = @fragment.children.first
      if d && HTML_INLINE_ELEMS.include?(d.name)
        elts << d unless d.attribute('markdown')
        elts += span_descendents(d)
      end

      elts.each do |e|
        how = e['markdown']
        e.remove_attribute('markdown')

        next if "0" == how # user requests no markdown parsing inside
        parse_blocks = (how == 'block') || BLOCK_TAGS.include?(e.name)

        # Select all text children of e
        e.xpath("./text()").each do |original_text|
          s = MaRuKu::Out::HTML.escapeHTML(original_text.text)
          unless s.strip.empty?
            parsed = parse_blocks ? doc.parse_text_as_markdown(s) : doc.parse_span(s)

            # restore leading and trailing spaces
            padding = /\A(\s*).*?(\s*)\z/.match(s)
            parsed = [padding[1]] + parsed + [padding[2]] if padding

            el = doc.md_el(:dummy, parsed)

            # Nokogiri collapses consecutive Text nodes, so replace it by a dummy element
            guard = Nokogiri::XML::Element.new('guard', @fragment)
            original_text.replace(guard)
            el.children_to_html.each do |x|
              guard.before(x.to_s)
            end
            guard.remove
          end
        end
      end
    end