Using DITA Conditional Text in Markdown Files
One of the advantages of DITA is the ease in which you can apply conditional text. Because, in most instances, I use markdown when working with DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT), I wanted to see how well conditional text works in markdown files. In DITA-OT, you can apply conditional text to markdown files. I will show some examples in this post. Create Markdown Files First, we'll populate three markdown files: first.md # First Section This document shows the use of conditional text in markdown files. second.md # Second Section This is the second section. conditions.md # Conditions This is a test. This paragraph is visible to <span audience="novice">novice</span><span audience="expert">expert</span> users. This paragraph is only for novice users. {audience="novice"} This paragraph is only for advanced users. {audience="expert"} ## Table {audience="expert"} | Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 | | -------...