[wp-hackers] adding HTML to readme.txt

[Phillip Lord]

I am tryign to add raw HTML to me readme.txt. The reason for this is
that I want to add a span tag which contains CoiNS metadata to this
page, which my plugin itself can interpret. 

The section of my readme.txt looks like this.

---- START ----

A tool for producing citations and bibliographies in Wordpress posts.
Developed for the Knowledgeblog project (http://knowledgeblog.org).


<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=copy-from-kblog-metadata.php&amp;rft.title=Kcite&amp;rft.source=Wordpress+Plugin&amp;rft.date=2012-05-11&amp;rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2F2012%2F05%2F11%2Fkcite%2F&amp;rft.au=Phillip+Lord&amp;rft.au=Simon+Cockell&amp;rft.format=text&amp;rft.language=English"></span>

---- END ----

COinS metadata is not my invention, so please don't blame me for the
format! However, if I run markdown on this, it does the right thing:

---- START ----

<p>A tool for producing citations and bibliographies in Wordpress posts.
Developed for the Knowledgeblog project (http://knowledgeblog.org).</p>

<p><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=copy-from-kblog-metadata.php&amp;rft.title=Kcite&amp;rft.source=Wordpress+Plugin&amp;rft.date=2012-05-11&amp;rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2F2012%2F05%2F11%2Fkcite%2F&amp;rft.au=Phillip+Lord&amp;rft.au=Simon+Cockell&amp;rft.format=text&amp;rft.language=English"></span></p>

---- END ----


However, with the readme.txt validator I either get no span tag at all,
or I get the an escaped span tag with entities everywhere and not an
angle bracket in site (er, sight), depending on whether I have the span
tag in a clear line of it's own or not. I have even tried adding php in
(which the example readme suggests you can do) and having it echo the
HTML. Didn't work. 

I am guessing that readme.txt is not actually parsed my markdown but
something related. Is it possible to include raw HTML in? Can anyone
point me to an example? 

Thanks

Phil