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How to render two files from a single markdown

I have a collection of markdown files and I would like to render in two different set of files using two different layout files when building the page:

– html files for the website – xml files

Is it possible to do this? It seems that a markdown file can be only parsed once. Any suggestions? Many thanks

Solution

  • Instead of having a markdown file that points to a layout file, you're going to need two pages that point to the markdown post file.

    There are a number of ways to point to a post file. I like to use a where filter:

    {% assign post = site.posts | where:"url", include.url | first %}

    Now that you have a post, let's say you have fileOne.html that you want to put that post into. Here's how you'd approach that:

    ---
layout:main
---

<h1>Some html here</h1>

{% assign post = site.posts | where:"url", include.url | first %}
{{ post.content }}

    Then you could do the exact same thing in another file named fileTwo.html.