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Description
Using the option self-contained currently implies the option standalone when producing HTML output. This is not desired in all use cases, especially not when using Pandoc as an external renderer in certain context (Content Management System, Templating etc.).
It would be useful to have an option to produce data URIs (i.e. not requiring external images) for a part of included document, rendering only HTML body in that case without other HTML declarations (that are a part of the master document).
Introducing an additional Pandoc option would perhaps be the cleanest way of addressing the mentioned use case, since it would not break existing usage, e.g. something like embed-resources (or embedded-references or embed-media