html tables - remove trailing spaces in HTML raw block before parsing

news/changelog-1.7.md

@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ All changes included in 1.7:
 - ([#12338](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12338)): Add an additional workaround for the SCSS parser used in color variable extraction.
 - ([#12369](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/12369)): `quarto preview` correctly throws a YAML validation error when a `format` key does not conform.
 - ([#12238](https://gijit.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12238)): Very long error (e.g. in Jupyter Notenook with backtrace) are now no more truncated in the console.
+- ([#9867](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/9867)): Blank lines are now trimmed in Raw HTML Table blocks.
 
 ## Languages
 

src/resources/filters/crossref/crossref.lua

@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ import("../quarto-init/resourcerefs.lua")
 
 import("../normalize/flags.lua")
 import("../normalize/normalize.lua")
-import("../normalize/parsehtml.lua")
 import("../normalize/extractquartodom.lua")
 import("../normalize/astpipeline.lua")
 import("../normalize/capturereaderstate.lua")

src/resources/filters/main.lua

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ import("./quarto-finalize/typst.lua")
 
 import("./normalize/flags.lua")
 import("./normalize/normalize.lua")
-import("./normalize/parsehtml.lua")
 import("./normalize/extractquartodom.lua")
 import("./normalize/astpipeline.lua")
 import("./normalize/capturereaderstate.lua")

src/resources/filters/normalize/astpipeline.lua

@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ function quarto_ast_pipeline()
     end
     local function handle_raw_html_as_table(el)
       local eltext
+      -- trim leading and trailing spaces
+      el.text = el.text:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1")
+
       if(_quarto.format.isTypstOutput()) then
         eltext = juice(el.text)
       else