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  8. <p class="shortdesc">DITA-OT³ supports several alternative input formats in addition to standard DITA XML, including Markdown
  9. and the proposed XDITA, MDITA and HDITA authoring formats currently in development for Lightweight DITA.</p>
  10. <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/markdown-input.html">Markdown content</a></strong><br> <a class="xref" href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" target="_blank">Markdown</a> is a lightweight markup language that allows you to write using an easy-to-read plain text format and convert to structurally valid markup as necessary.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/lwdita-input.html">Preview support for Lightweight DITA</a></strong><br>DITA-OT provides preview support for the authoring formats proposed for <a class="xref" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cn01/LwDITA-v1.0-cn01.pdf" target="_blank">Lightweight DITA</a>, or “<dfn class="term">LwDITA</dfn>”. The XDITA, MDITA and HDITA formats are alternative representations of DITA content in XML, Markdown and HTML5.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/markdown-dita-syntax-reference.html">Markdown DITA syntax reference</a></strong><br>Markdown DITA uses <a class="xref" href="http://commonmark.org" target="_blank">CommonMark</a> as the underlying markup language.</li></ul></nav></article></main></body></html>