From ced31cc4f4214d3cb8ca4e5882d51f6c6b796ce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Norman <james@nsawd.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 21:32:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added ability to refernce metadata fields from within the
 markdown file.

---
 README.md    | 12 ++++++++++++
 bin/restdown |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3f418a6..f3d6d85 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -151,6 +151,18 @@ Metadata can also be provided on the command-line with the `-d|--define` option.
 
     restdown --define mediaroot=/ index.restdown
 
+## Using Metadata Fields
+
+You can also access the values of the metadata fields you set in your markdown as follows:
+
+    ---
+    author: John Doe
+    created: 3rd September 2013
+    ---
+
+    The author of this document is #{author}. It was created on #{created}.
+
+
 
 # JSON API Summary
 
diff --git a/bin/restdown b/bin/restdown
index 930a9a1..cf03caf 100755
--- a/bin/restdown
+++ b/bin/restdown
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ def restdown(metadata, markdown, brand_dir=None, doc_dir=None):
     @returns {str, dict} The HTML document (full page) and a dict giving
         data about the API: version, endpoints.
     """
+    for key in metadata:
+        markdown = re.sub(r"#{" + key + "}", metadata.get(key), markdown)
+
     doc_markdown_opts = copy.deepcopy(markdown_opts)
     for extra in metadata.get("markdown2extras", []):
         doc_markdown_opts["extras"][extra] = True