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Renames the deprecated :streaming option to :auto_close and makes it a first-class option on every render path, instead of something only reachable through a deprecated document flag.

What :auto_close does

Closes Markdown left open at the end of the source — emphasis, inline code, fenced blocks, links, images, tables, list markers, HTML tags — so partial output stays readable.

MDEx.to_html!("Some **bo")                     #=> "<p>Some **bo</p>"
MDEx.to_html!("Some **bo", auto_close: true)   #=> "<p>Some <strong>bo</strong></p>"

Defaults to false, and to true in MDEx.stream/2, which preserves current behaviour.

Why

MDEx.stream/2 always completed fragments with no way to opt out. That is not always what a caller wants — a link whose URL is still arriving renders as a real, clickable link:

MDEx.to_html!("a [x](htt", auto_close: true)   #=> ~s(<p>a <a href="htt">x</a></p>)

auto_close: false now renders the source as written, in one-shot renders and inside MDEx.stream/2.

The capability also had no home outside streaming. Rendering a source that may end mid-token is a pure function on a binary and is useful on its own, so callers holding a whole growing response as a string no longer need MDEx.stream/2 or a deprecated flag.

:streaming still works and warns, now pointing at :auto_close.

Docs

  • Document.put_markdown/3 gains a warning that it composes a document from separate pieces of Markdown and is not for feeding stream chunks. run/1 renders the current AST back to Markdown before parsing the buffer with it, so each call costs a full render plus a full parse, and the round trip loses what the AST does not store — blank lines between blocks, list looseness, and a table's delimiter row. Feeding chunks that way merges paragraphs, turns loose lists tight, and turns a table's |---| row into a data row.
  • The streaming guide is split into the two independent concepts and cut from 430 to 244 lines.
  • MDEx.new/1 documents :auto_close; usage-rules.md updated.

Tests

828 passing (63 doctests, 765 tests), up from 825. New tests cover the default in and out of streaming, and turning it off. mix format --check-formatted, mix compile --warnings-as-errors, and mix credo --strict are clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an auto_close option to control whether incomplete Markdown syntax is closed at chunk boundaries.
    • Streaming output closes incomplete syntax by default; this can be disabled with auto_close: false.
    • Outside streaming, automatic closure remains disabled unless explicitly enabled.
  • Documentation

    • Updated streaming guides and usage guidance with the new option, behavior, examples, and recommended usage patterns.
    • Clarified the distinction between composing Markdown documents and processing chunked input.

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MDEx adds the :auto_close option for conditional completion of open Markdown syntax. Streaming and document pipelines now apply separate defaults, tests cover both modes, and guides describe the distinction between whole-document rendering, keyed streaming, and put_markdown/3.

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Auto-close streaming behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document option pipeline
lib/mdex/document.ex, lib/mdex.ex
Registers and stores :auto_close, preserves streaming state, and applies conditional buffer completion.
Stream auto-close control
lib/mdex.ex, test/mdex/stream_test.exs, test/mdex/document_test.exs
MDEx.stream/2 defaults :auto_close to true; non-streaming rendering defaults it to false. Tests cover both settings and option registration.
Streaming documentation and guidance
guides/streaming.md, usage-rules.md
Documents :auto_close, keyed streams, input sources, LiveView behavior, plugins, and the distinction from put_markdown/3.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 361f6

The new auto-close option works in the document and stream paths, but XML rendering does not apply it for binary Markdown input. Users requesting XML with auto-close enabled can receive unclosed source behavior instead of the documented completed output; this should be fixed and covered before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant MDEx.stream/2
  participant MDEx.FragmentParser
  participant MDEx.Document
  Caller->>MDEx.stream/2: provide binary chunks and auto_close option
  MDEx.stream/2->>MDEx.FragmentParser: complete chunk when auto_close is true
  MDEx.FragmentParser-->>MDEx.stream/2: completed or unchanged source
  MDEx.stream/2->>MDEx.Document: emit parsed document
  MDEx.Document-->>Caller: return keyed document stream
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Renames the deprecated :streaming option to :auto_close and makes it a
first-class option on every render path instead of something only reachable
through a deprecated document flag.

:auto_close closes Markdown left open at the end of the source - emphasis,
inline code, fenced blocks, links, images, tables, list markers and HTML tags -
so a half-written `**bold` renders as bold rather than literal asterisks. It
defaults to false, and to true in MDEx.stream/2, which preserves current
behaviour. MDEx.stream/2 previously always completed fragments with no way to
opt out; auto_close: false now renders the source as written.

:streaming still works and warns, pointing at :auto_close.

Also documents that Document.put_markdown/3 is for composing a document from
separate pieces of Markdown and not for feeding stream chunks: it renders the
AST back to Markdown on every run/1, which is slower and loses blank lines,
list looseness and table delimiter rows.

Shortens the streaming guide and splits it into the two independent concepts.

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Apply :auto_close in the binary XML render path.

When MDEx.to_xml/2 receives a Markdown string, Lines 660-667 call Comrak.markdown_to_xml/2 directly after extracting the options. This bypasses MDEx.Document.run/1 and MDEx.FragmentParser.complete/1, so MDEx.to_xml!("a [x](htt", auto_close: true) still renders the raw source. The documentation in guides/streaming.md Lines 22-24 and usage-rules.md Lines 440-442 claims that every renderer supports this option. Route this path through the document pipeline or complete the source before the native XML call, and add an XML regression test.

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In `@lib/mdex.ex` around lines 660 - 667, The binary clause of MDEx.to_xml/2
currently bypasses auto-close processing; route the markdown through the
existing Document.run/1 and FragmentParser.complete/1 pipeline, or complete the
source before Comrak.markdown_to_xml/2, while preserving normal XML rendering.
Add a regression test covering an incomplete link with auto_close: true and
asserting the completed XML output.
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In `@lib/mdex.ex`:
- Around line 660-667: The binary clause of MDEx.to_xml/2 currently bypasses
auto-close processing; route the markdown through the existing Document.run/1
and FragmentParser.complete/1 pipeline, or complete the source before
Comrak.markdown_to_xml/2, while preserving normal XML rendering. Add a
regression test covering an incomplete link with auto_close: true and asserting
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to_xml/2 renders a Markdown binary natively instead of running the document
pipeline, so :auto_close was silently ignored there while every other renderer
honoured it. Complete the source before the native call, and align the
experimental notice on stream/2 with the wording used elsewhere.
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Verified the to_xml/2 finding — it was real. The binary clause renders natively instead of running the document pipeline, so :auto_close was ignored there while to_html/2, to_json/2, to_delta/2 and parse_document/2 all honoured it.

Fixed by completing the source before the native call. Output is now byte-identical to MDEx.new(markdown: source, auto_close: true) |> MDEx.to_xml!(), and the default path is unchanged. Added a regression test covering every renderer that accepts Markdown, including the XML parity assertion.

Also aligned the experimental notice on stream/2 with the wording used by parse_fragment/2.

833 tests passing.

Covers 16 document shapes across 7 chunk sizes, asserting that the final keyed
chunks render the same HTML as to_html!/2, that their nodes partition the
one-shot parse exactly, and that no temporary closing syntax survives to end of
input. Also covers auto_close: false and a single chunk holding the whole
source.
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