{
  "product": "Specification (reference)",
  "title": "Markdown with Front Matter",
  "summary": "The content format behind most static sites — document plus structured metadata.",
  "category": "formats",
  "entries": [
    {
      "path": [
        "Structure",
        "Front matter delimited at the very start of the file"
      ],
      "value": "--- … ---",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Structure",
        "YAML front matter, with TOML and JSON as documented variants"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Structure",
        "Body is Markdown after the closing delimiter"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Metadata",
        "Title, date, and a stable slug"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Metadata",
        "Draft flag excluded from production builds"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Metadata",
        "Taxonomies"
      ],
      "value": "tags, categories",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": "multi-valued"
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Metadata",
        "Arbitrary user fields preserved and exposed to templates"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Dates",
        "Unambiguous date parsing with a time zone"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": "the field that breaks feeds"
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Body",
        "Standard Markdown plus a declared extension set"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Body",
        "Shortcodes or component embeds, with escaping"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Body",
        "Relative links and images resolved against the document"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Validation",
        "Missing required fields fail the build loudly"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": "not silently"
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Validation",
        "Unknown fields warn rather than crash"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "path": [
        "Round-trip",
        "Rewriting preserves body formatting and field order"
      ],
      "value": "",
      "status": "yes",
      "note": ""
    }
  ]
}