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A site adopting this app arrives holding procedures already written: styled HTML pages that get mailed around, opened off a share, and edited by whoever still has the file. Those pages are exactly what a guide is for, and retyping one into the editor is how a good procedure stays on a share forever. flask guides import-html reads the page and produces blocks. It recognises the vocabulary those pages actually use - a step box with its own number, an alert in one of three colours, a code block with a copy button, a checkbox list, a table with a header row - and maps each to the block that already renders it, lifting embedded images into guideimages so a document stops carrying its screenshots as base64. Page furniture goes: the header, the footer, and the table of contents a guide builds for itself from its own headings. The conversion is lossy on purpose. Colour, fonts, width and nested layout are dropped, because storing blocks rather than markup is what makes dark mode, printing and tickable steps work at all. So an import is always a DRAFT and the default is a dry run that reports what it would produce and writes nothing. Blocks go through the same validator the API uses: an import must not be able to store something the editor could not have produced. The parser is tolerant, because real articles are not well-formed. An unclosed <p> is normal HTML and the browser closes it at the next block element; without the same rule one unclosed tag swallows the rest of the article into a single paragraph, which is what it did before the test caught it. Proven end to end against four real articles, including one carrying two PNG screenshots, read back in a browser.
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