M inline.go → inline.go

@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ }
 
 	txtE := i
 	i++
+	var footnoteNode *Node
 
 	// skip any amount of whitespace or newline
 	// (this is much more lax than original markdown syntax)
@@ -476,6 +477,7 @@ id = data[1:txtE]
 			}
 		}
 
+		footnoteNode = NewNode(Item)
 		if t == linkInlineFootnote {
 			// create a new reference
 			noteID = len(p.notes) + 1
@@ -497,6 +499,7 @@ noteID:   noteID,
 				hasBlock: false,
 				link:     fragment,
 				title:    id,
+				footnote: footnoteNode,
 			}
 
 			p.notes = append(p.notes, ref)
@@ -512,6 +515,7 @@ }
 
 			if t == linkDeferredFootnote {
 				lr.noteID = len(p.notes) + 1
+				lr.footnote = footnoteNode
 				p.notes = append(p.notes, lr)
 			}
 
@@ -570,6 +574,7 @@ linkNode = NewNode(Link)
 		linkNode.Destination = link
 		linkNode.Title = title
 		linkNode.NoteID = noteID
+		linkNode.Footnote = footnoteNode
 		if t == linkInlineFootnote {
 			i++
 		}

M markdown.go → markdown.go

@@ -213,14 +213,16 @@ p.tip = above
 }
 
 func (p *parser) addChild(node NodeType, offset uint32) *Node {
-	for !p.tip.canContain(node) {
+	return p.addExistingChild(NewNode(node), offset)
+}
+
+func (p *parser) addExistingChild(node *Node, offset uint32) *Node {
+	for !p.tip.canContain(node.Type) {
 		p.finalize(p.tip)
 	}
-	newNode := NewNode(node)
-	newNode.content = []byte{}
-	p.tip.AppendChild(newNode)
-	p.tip = newNode
-	return newNode
+	p.tip.AppendChild(node)
+	p.tip = node
+	return node
 }
 
 func (p *parser) closeUnmatchedBlocks() {
@@ -419,7 +421,8 @@ // we need to process those late additions. Range form would only walk over
 	// the fixed initial set.
 	for i := 0; i < len(p.notes); i++ {
 		ref := p.notes[i]
-		block := p.addBlock(Item, nil)
+		p.addExistingChild(ref.footnote, 0)
+		block := ref.footnote
 		block.ListFlags = flags | ListTypeOrdered
 		block.RefLink = ref.link
 		if ref.hasBlock {
@@ -570,6 +573,7 @@ link     []byte
 	title    []byte
 	noteID   int // 0 if not a footnote ref
 	hasBlock bool
+	footnote *Node // a link to the Item node within a list of footnotes
 
 	text []byte // only gets populated by refOverride feature with Reference.Text
 }

M node.go → node.go

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ type LinkData struct {
 	Destination []byte // Destination is what goes into a href
 	Title       []byte // Title is the tooltip thing that goes in a title attribute
 	NoteID      int    // NoteID contains a serial number of a footnote, zero if it's not a footnote
+	Footnote    *Node  // If it's a footnote, this is a direct link to the footnote Node. Otherwise nil.
 }
 
 // CodeBlockData contains fields relevant to a CodeBlock node type.