Markdown was originally designed for people writing for the web and, as such, is not as well-suited to writing documentation as Asciidoctor. Typically, these limitations are overcome by using another tool that builds on top of Markdown.spring-doc.cn

Markdown has no official support for tables. Spring REST Docs' default Markdown snippet templates use Markdown Extra’s table format.spring-doc.cn

Markdown has no built-in support for including one Markdown file in another. To include the generated snippets of Markdown in your documentation, you should use an additional tool that supports this functionality. One example that is particularly well-suited to documenting APIs is Slate.spring-doc.cn