Issue with line-breaks tags

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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

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Start by running the Python markdownify example from the issue and compare handling of
with
. Trace the HTML-to-Markdown handling for these tags; done means the output includes the line after the self-closing tag, matching the expected string.

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Description

Hi,

I'm facing an issue with line-breaks tags when they are written like <br/> instead of <br>.

Considering this simple example:

>>> import markdownify
>>> markdownify.markdownify("<p>11111<br>22222<br>33333<br/>44444<br><55555</p>", heading_style=markdownify.ATX)

Expected:

'11111  \n22222  \n33333  \n44444  \n55555 \n\n'

Actual:

'11111  \n22222  \n33333  \n\n\n'

My workaround is to .replace('<br/>','<br>') but it's a little pity...

Could you fix this in a future release?

Regards,

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