Mermaid - Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown

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Hey folks - did we come to a conclusion around rendering foreign input such as mermaidjs within commonmark?

```!mermaid
graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

Seems the easiest convention to implement and reads pretty nicely. What we’d probably do is actually generate the contents with-in a iframe so that we can delegate rendering of these components rather than trying to generate SVG’s etc with-in the commonmark renderer. That would also allow us to mix and match between client side of server side rendering depending on the external format being rendered inline.

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