Is it possible for markdown export to link to other files?

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I exported a notebook to markdown (which is great), but I found that the files don't have links to other files like they were in Siyuan.

So, is there anyway to make markdown exports have links to other files?

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    • 88250

      Sorry, converting references to relative paths to Markdown files is not supported.

      Some of the existing reference export modes can be seen in Settings - Export:

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    • adham
      Author

      Here's the before and after comparison.

      Before:

      
      # Networking
      
      The most important things to know are the networking protocols.
      
      
      * [TCP](siyuan://blocks/20231110002225-jzlfmvr)
      * [UDP](siyuan://blocks/20231111114912-9gi1l0p)
      * [HTTP](siyuan://blocks/20231110002250-b9w413n)
      * [TLS](siyuan://blocks/20231111114933-oti4rz4)
      * [WebSockets](siyuan://blocks/20231111115839-xw23n4k)
      * [WebRTC](siyuan://blocks/20231111114916-nevtkga)
      
      
      

      After:

      # Networking
      
      The most important things to know are the networking protocols.
      
      
      * [TCP](/Networking/TCP.md)
      * [UDP](/Networking/UDP.md)
      * [HTTP](/Networking/HTTP.md)
      * [TLS](/Networking/TLS.md)
      * [WebSockets](/Networking/WebSockets.md)
      * [WebRTC](/Networking/WebRTC.md)
      
      
      
    • 88250

      The reason why this function is placed at the notebook level is because some users no longer want to use SiYuan and need complete batch export, so support for this function is not considered at the document level.

      I'm not sure if the span tag still exists after pandoc converts the HTML, but I'm sure anchor jumps can be used and you can write HTML tests in the browser.

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    • sagar
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      @adham Wow 😍 You are a master programmer indeed! I was still trying to figure out how to use Python to open all .md files in a directory, by copy/pasting code from Stackoverflow 😄 This solution is exactly what I meant.

      I do believe it can be extended to include references to any arbitrary block, not just a document block. You did say that you don't want to mutate the linked documents, but I am just laying out the approach in case any other master programmers want to try it 😄. You wrote,

      I don't know how to find out if the link is of a block or a document,

      I see a few different possible checks for this

      • Look at the 'type' field in the response of the SQL query. If it is a document block, the type value will be 'd'. Other type values are given in the documentation at /Please Start Here/Advanced search/Type filtering
      • I believe that if the block is of type document, then the 'root_id' will be the same as 'id'. See the documentation of the SQL table fields at /Please Start Here/Advanced search/Database table

      So one or both of the above checks can be used to determine if the block is of type 'document' or something else.

      If the block is of type something else, then the way to link to it would be

      1. Open the target document that contains the block (i.e. the hpath)
      2. Search for the occurrence of the content in the 'markdown' field of the SQL query response. This will place the "cursor" inside the document to the start of the paragraph (or whatever other content) the block points to
      3. At this cursor position, insert an HTML anchor text like: <a name="block-id"></a>
      4. Then, update the siyuan://blocks/block-id part of the link to hpath_value.md#block-id

      This approach enables having links in the markdown files to any other markdown files or parts inside markdown files.

      @adham Thank you once again for your example code 🙏

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