DocBook > MD conversion fails for <menuchoice>, <guimenu>, and <guisubmenu>

[michellemurray]

Input DocBook:
click <menuchoice><guimenu>Window</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Open Perspective</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Debug</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Output Markdown:
click Window Open Perspective Debug

Expected/Desired Output:
click Window > Open > Perspective > Debug
Or
click backtick Window > Open > Perspective > Debug backtick
(so is marked up too and not just plain text)

Conversion Command Used:
pandoc abc.xml -f docbook -t markdown --no-wrap --atx-headers --base-header-level=2 -o abc.md

[jgm]

Would it be safe to insert > between every element inside a
menuchoice, or does one need to pay attention to the inner
tags?

+++ michellemurray [Dec 14 14 18:53 ]:

Input DocBook:
click <menuchoice><guimenu>Window</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Open Perspective</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Debug</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Output Markdown:
click Window Open Perspective Debug

Expected/Desired Output:
click Window > Open > Perspective > Debug
Or
click backtick Window > Open > Perspective > Debug backtick
(so is marked up too and not just plain text)

Conversion Command Used:
pandoc abc.xml -f docbook -t markdown --no-wrap --atx-headers --base-header-level=2 -o abc.md

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[michellemurray]

Within <menuchoice>, you commonly use <guimenu>, <guimenuitem> and <subguimenu>. The latter cannot be nested inside each other and they are mostly treated interchangeably. So treating all elements inside <menuchoice> the same and inserting > between them would be fine to the best of my knowledge.