document(text, [data])
document(object)

You can explicitly convert a plain text document to a document object by passing it to the document function.

If hokusai.md contains plain text:

$ ori hokusai.md
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.

then invoking document on it returns a plain object with the original body text as a _body property:

$ ori Origami.document hokusai.md
_body: |
  I write, erase, rewrite
  Erase again, and then
  A poppy blooms.

You can also attach data:

$ ori Origami.document hokusai.md, { author: "'Katsushika Hokusai'" }
author: Katsushika Hokusai
_body: |
  I write, erase, rewrite
  Erase again, and then
  A poppy blooms.

If you have a text document with data in front matter:

$ ori basho.md
---
author: Basho
---

No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.

Then calling document on it returns a plain object with the front matter data as properties, plus the body text as a _body property:

$ ori Origami.document basho.md
author: Basho
_body: |
  
  No one travels
  Along this way but I,
  This autumn evening.

If you have a collection of documents, some of which have data and some of which don’t, you can normalize all of them to document objects by applying document to each of them.

$ ori Tree.map [basho.md, hokusai.md], =Origami.document _
- author: Basho
  _body: |
    
    No one travels
    Along this way but I,
    This autumn evening.
- _body: |
    I write, erase, rewrite
    Erase again, and then
    A poppy blooms.

All of the objects in the result are now document objects with a _body property.