Pandoc - HTML to Markdown - remove all attributes

Question

This would seem like a simple thing to do, but I've been unable to find an answer. I'm converting from HTML to Markdown using Pandoc and I would like to strip all attributes from the HTML such as "class" and "id".

Is there an option in Pandoc to do this?

Answer 1

Consider input.html:

<h1 class="test">Hi!</h1>
<p><strong id="another">This is a test.</strong></p>

Then, pandoc input.html -t markdown_github-raw_html -o output.md

produces output.md:

Hi!
===

**This is a test.**

without the -t markdown_github-raw_html, you would get

Hi! {#hi .test}
===

**This is a test.**

This question is actually similar to this one. I don't think pandoc ever preserves id attributes.