Would like the ability to import and export MD content

Hi,

XML documentation uses DITA-OT internally to generate the different output. DITA-OT allows the markdown files generation from source dita content and it also lets the author use the raw markdown files for publishing. Please refer below for more details:

1. Generating Markdown files from the source DITA files
1. DITA-OT provides three variety of markdown files

1.       Standard Markdown
2.       GitHub-Flavored Markdown Files

•       GitHub-Flavored Markdown Files with summary.md file

More details can be referred here - https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/topics/dita2markdown.html

All the above markdown files types are supported by DITA-OT and can be generated from the XML Documentation Solution by using the relevant transtype. Example – To generate GitHub-Flavored Markdown files, use the markdown_github transtype on the output-preset.

1. Using Markdown down files for generating output
1. There is a provision to use the markdown files with the maps and generate the PDF/pre-processed DITA/HTML5 output. There would two things required:

• Markdown file should follow the standard Markdown DITA syntax. More information can be referred here - https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/topics/markdown-dita-syntax-reference.html
• To add a Markdown topic to a DITA publication, create a topic reference in your map and set the @format attribute to markdown so the toolkit will recognize the source file as Markdown and convert it to DITA. More information can be referred here - https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/topics/markdown-input.html
• Example -   <topicref href="markdown-dita-topic.md" format="markdown"/>

Then you can generate any supported output format e.g. PDF or dita (for normalized dita)

If you need more details OR wanted to discuss your specific use case then please reach out to TechCommSales@adobe.com for a quick demo.

Thanks & Regards,

Kiran Mohan