md2dita: prolog in XML author and Ixiasoft different

deepbluesea70 · Post by **deepbluesea70** » Wed May 13, 2020 3:43 pm

Hi there,

I would like to convert markdown files that were created with additional content to be used with the HUGO renderer (https://gohugo.io/). I know this will not be possible completely. Anyway, I noticed that the integrated md2dita converter in XML author can deal with HUGO's so-called frontmatter (metadata between two "---" at the beginning of the document, see below) and convert it into a <prolog> section:

MD Source:

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---
title: Hibernate a Cluster
description: "Hibernate a Cluster to save money"
type: tutorial-page
level: beginner
category: Operation
scope: operator
tags: ["task"]
aliases: ["/readmore/hibernate"]
publishdate: 2020-04-06
---

# Hibernate a Cluster

Clusters are only needed

When imported in XML author (version: 21.1) with File -> Open, the md2dita editor converts the frontmatter to dita like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
<topic id="hibernate-a-cluster">
    <title>Hibernate a Cluster</title>
    <prolog>
        <metadata>
            <category>Operation</category>
        </metadata>
        <data name="aliases" value="[&#34;/readmore/hibernate&#34;]"/>
        <data name="description" value="&#34;Hibernate a Cluster to save money&#34;"/>
        <data name="level" value="beginner"/>
        <data name="publishdate" value="2020-04-06"/>
        <data name="scope" value="operator"/>
        <data name="tags" value="[&#34;task&#34;]"/>
        <data name="title" value="Hibernate a Cluster"/>
        <data name="type" value="tutorial-page"/>
    </prolog>
    <body>
        <p>Clusters are only needed...

This is very close to what I need: I would like to save metadata about the original MD source in the Ixiasoft DITA CMS.

However, when I try to do the same in Ixiasoft with the integrated version of oXygen (version 20.1), the result looks different:

Only the Category metadata is kept. Maybe, because this is a standard element that can be used in the prolog section?
The prolog section is not only inserted at the beginning, but also after all following sections.

See screenshot below.

How can I get the same result as in the local XML author? Is the reason for the different result the older XML author version used (20.1. in -Ixiasoft compared to 21.1.)? Or do I miss something and there is some option I need to choose to get the same result?

Ideally, I'd like to get the following <prolog> section:

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    <prolog>
        <metadata>
            <category>Operation</category>
        </metadata>
        <othermeta content="Hibernate a Cluster" name="title" />
        <othermeta content="Hibernate a Cluster to save money" name="description" />        
        <othermeta content="beginner" name="" /> 
        <othermeta content="beginner" name="level" />   
        <othermeta content="operator" name="scope" />   
        <othermeta content="2020-04-06" name="publishdate" />   
        <othermeta content="tutorial-page" name="type" />   
    </prolog>

Thank you

frontmatter-conversion-Ixiasoft.png

Post by **alex_jitianu** » Thu May 14, 2020 12:01 pm

Hello,

The Markdown to DITA conversion is based on the LwDITA parser for DITA-OT plugin. Oxygen 21.1 comes with a newer version of this plugin which better handles the metadata section.

You can check the plugin's Syntax reference, but I, personally, don't see a way to generate othermeta instead of data. You can use Oxygen's XML Refactoring feature to rename the data elements into othermata

Best regards,
Alex

deepbluesea70 · Post by **deepbluesea70** » Fri May 15, 2020 5:18 pm

Thank you Alex for the explanation!

Best regards,
Jens

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