I have paragraphs that contains MarkDown. Is there a way in the XSLT to process them as markdown?

I am working on generating PDFs out of xqDoc http://xqdoc.org extracted from XQuery code where the descriptions can be in the format of MarkDown.

        <xqdoc:function>
            <xqdoc:comment>
                <xqdoc:description>Upload zip file to the server</xqdoc:description>
                <xqdoc:param>$files
## The uploaded files

* The map's keys represent the filenames of each file uploaded
* The map's values are themselves maps too, let's call this an "entry map"
* The entry map contains two keys, a content-type and a body
* The value for content-type is the Content Type of this particular file
* The value for body is the Content Body of this particular file as a binary() item</xqdoc:param>
            </xqdoc:comment>
            <xqdoc:name>upload</xqdoc:name>

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.        </xqdoc:function>

The entry for the param of $files is in MarkDown format.  Is there a way for the MarkDown to be processed when generating the PDF?

Right now, I have it generating:

<db:para>## The uploaded files* The map's keys represent the filenames of each file uploaded* The map's values are themselves maps too, let's call this an "entry map"* The entry map contains two keys, a content-type and a body* The value for content-type is the Content Type of this particular file* The value for body is the Content Body of this particular file as a binary() item

</db:para>

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