Building a Markdig Extension for DocFX: Remote Content Inclusion with AI Rewriting

The Problem Every Documentation Team Hits

If you've worked on a documentation platform at any scale, you've hit this

problem: content lives in multiple places, and you need to compose it into

a single, coherent site at build time.

Maybe your API reference is generated from code. Maybe your troubleshooting

guides live in a separate service. Maybe different teams own different sections,

and you need to pull them together into one DocFX site without copy-pasting

content that goes stale the moment it's duplicated.

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a standalone

Sai Pramod Upadhyayula is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he

works on AI-powered enterprise knowledge platforms. He co-authored "AutoTSG:

Learning and Synthesis for Incident Troubleshooting" (ESEC/FSE 2022) and

contributes to the DocFX open-source ecosystem.