Working with Markdown Documents in DITA
Oxygen XML Developer plugin includes some unique features that allow you to easily integrate Markdown documents in a DITA project. This is especially helpful for teams that have contributors who are familiar with the Markdown syntax, but they want their output to be generated from DITA projects. The integration between the Markdown editor and DITA includes actions to export or convert Markdown documents to DITA topics and the DITA tab in the Preview pane provides a visualization of how the topic will look after conversion.
Export Markdown as a DITA Topic
The Markdown editor includes an option to quickly convert the current Markdown document into a DITA topic. The Export as DITA Topic action is available in the contextual menu of the left-side text editor and the right-side Preview pane when the DITA tab selected.
The conversion creates a new XML file that is defined as a DITA topic and opens it in the Text editing mode. You can then work with the document as you would with any other DITA topic, although you may need to manually correct some issues where the parser could not properly map Markdown syntax to DITA markup.
Tip
[OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/samples/dita/markdown-dita.