# Transclusion or including sub-documents for reuse

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/transclusion-or-including-sub-documents-for-reuse/270>\
**Category:** Extensions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 10:18am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/transclusion-or-including-sub-documents-for-reuse/270 "2014-09-04T10:18:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmatsushita](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jmatsushita/32/957_2.png) [@jmatsushita](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/jmatsushita)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/transclusion-or-including-sub-documents-for-reuse/270/8 "2016-04-08T07:07:53Z")

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Hi there,

I wanted to point out another transclusion syntax that I’ve grown quite fond of which is proposed in the [hercule](https://github.com/jamesramsay/hercule) library and used to compose API Blueprints.

```auto
Simple extension of markdown link syntax :[Title](link.md) (preceding colon :)

```

The big plus is graceful degradation into links, and possible context passing.

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