Option to disable collapseWhitespace function?

[EdrikC]

Is there a way to disable the collapseWhitespace function similar to how it can be done for code blocks?

My original issue:

this HTML:

<p>Hello</p>
<p><br></p>
<p><br></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>World.</p>

gets converted to this MD:

Hello

World.

It seems no matter how many break tags I have, they get consolidated into just one \n.

Originally posted by @EdrikC in #487 (comment)

[martincizek]

Is there a way to disable the collapseWhitespace function similar to how it can be done for code blocks?

Unfortunately not, Turndown currently relies on collapsing non-semantical whitespace, so it would break the output for some inputs.

gets converted to this MD:

Can't reproduce this:

The reason in the former issues is that the hardbreak option was configured to as empty string, which is invalid.

[martincizek]

This is probably a duplicate of #361.