Can I store metadata in HTML tags in Confluence?

Giorgos Flouren

Hello! I am creating pages on Confluence programmatically using the REST API. I need to store some tables that I need to retrieve (using an XML parser) and update later. In order to tell which table is which, I am trying to store attributes to the HTML tags in Confluence, but Confluence seems to drop them when saving the page content.

For example, when I send Confluence this

<tbody tid="a-very-specific-table">
	...
</tbody>

Confluence accepts it but later on when I retrieve the page the table drops the attributes I gave it:

<tbody>
	...
</tbody>

 

Is there a way to store my own attributes or otherwise tag a table with some metadata so that I can retrieve it later?

Many thanks in advance!

Alex Medved _ConfiForms_

Hi,

What if when you create you page, you try to wrap your custom attributed tables in a HTML macro

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="html">
<ac:plain-text-body>
<![CDATA[
 
TABLE here
 
]]>
</ac:plain-text-body>
</ac:structured-macro>

will this work or still will strip-off your custom attributes?