<xmod:Markdown>

<xmod:Markdown> (introduced in v4.9) converts Markdown content to HTML at render time. The Markdown source goes between the opening and closing tags — typically a [[FieldName]] token bound to a Markdown column populated by the <Markdown> form control, but plain hardcoded Markdown works too.

XMP uses the Markdig library with the Advanced Extensions and EmojiAndSmiley profiles enabled.

Markdown is not a sanitizer

Markdown does not make raw HTML safe. By default, raw HTML inside Markdown passes through to the rendered page — if user-supplied content can contain HTML, you must sanitize it before storing it (or use Bootstrap="true", which disables raw HTML).

Example

<xmod:Template>
  <DetailDataSource CommandText="SELECT Author, Title, Article FROM Articles WHERE ArticleId = @id">
    <Parameter Name="id" Value="[[Url:id]]" DataType="Int32" />
  </DetailDataSource>
  <DetailTemplate>
    <h1>[[Title]]</h1>
    <h4>by [[Author]]</h4>
    <xmod:Markdown>[[Article]]</xmod:Markdown>
  </DetailTemplate>
</xmod:Template>

Inline Markdown content works too, but indentation matters in Markdown — start every content line at column 0:

<xmod:Markdown>
# Section heading
## Subheading
* Item one
* Item two
  * Nested item
</xmod:Markdown>

Properties

Property	Values	Default	Description
Bootstrap	True False	False	When True, adds Bootstrap utility classes to common rendered elements and disables raw HTML pass-through

Property Details

• Bootstrap: When True, the Markdig pipeline runs with the Bootstrap profile and DisableHtml. The differences:

  Element	Bootstrap="False" (default)	Bootstrap="True"
  Raw HTML in source	Passes through to output	Rendered as plain text inside <p>
  <table>	No class	Adds .table
  <blockquote>	No class	Adds .blockquote
  <figure>	No class	Adds .figure
  <figcaption>	No class	Adds .figure-caption
  Images	<img src="...">	<img src="..." class="img-fluid">

  For sites built on Bootstrap, this is the easier path — Markdown renders into already-styled markup with no extra CSS.

Code blocks

Fenced code blocks render as <pre><code>...</code></pre>. When the fence specifies a language (e.g. ```javascript), the <code> tag picks up a class:

```javascript
console.log('hello');
```

renders as:

<pre><code class="language-javascript">console.log('hello');</code></pre>

XMP doesn't bundle a syntax highlighter — your stylesheet (or a JS library like Prism or highlight.js) handles the visual highlighting.