The following HTML should be converted to textile:
**** Ressourcen schonen, weniger drucken - Think before you print! ****
As far as I can see, this is valid HTML.
Converting this to Textile with pandoc via
pandoc -f html -t textile filename.html
the output for this piece is encoded like this:
**** Ressourcen schonen, weniger drucken - Think before you print! ****
This looks to be valid Textile, according to some sites which happily decode it. Other sites however, complain that this is not valid:
Your text appears to contain something that shouldn’t be pasted into our textile form.
Also, pandoc reverse transformation of the output in Textile format returns this:
**** Ressourcen schonen, weniger drucken - Think before you print! ****
Now the ampersands themselves are encoded, and it seems, pandoc doesn't see the output it generated itself to be valid input.
Is there a way around this? Is this really valid Textile?