import html5lib

from html5lib import html5parser, sanitizer

import markdown

def parse(text):

    # First run through the Markdown parser

    text = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=["extra"], safe_mode=False)

    # Sanitize using html5lib

    bits = []

    parser = html5parser.HTMLParser(tokenizer=sanitizer.HTMLSanitizer)

    for token in parser.parseFragment(text).childNodes:

        bits.append(token.toxml())

    return "".join(bits)