diff --git a/src/PatternLab/PatternData/Rules/DocumentationRule.php b/src/PatternLab/PatternData/Rules/DocumentationRule.php
index 4e9ef3fa..d91bab55 100644
--- a/src/PatternLab/PatternData/Rules/DocumentationRule.php
+++ b/src/PatternLab/PatternData/Rules/DocumentationRule.php
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 use \PatternLab\PatternData;
 use \PatternLab\Parsers\Documentation;
 use \PatternLab\Timer;
+use \PatternLab\Data;
+use \PatternLab\PatternData\Exporters\PatternPathSrcExporter;
+use \PatternLab\PatternEngine;
 
 class DocumentationRule extends \PatternLab\PatternData\Rule {
 	
@@ -49,8 +52,7 @@ public function run($depth, $ext, $path, $pathName, $name) {
 		
 		// parse data
 		$text = file_get_contents($patternSourceDir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$pathName);
-		list($yaml,$markdown) = Documentation::parse($text);
-		
+
 		// grab the title and unset it from the yaml so it doesn't get duped in the meta
 		if (isset($yaml["title"])) {
 			$title = $yaml["title"];
@@ -73,7 +75,42 @@ public function run($depth, $ext, $path, $pathName, $name) {
 		
 		$category         = ($patternSubtypeDoc) ? "patternSubtype" : "pattern";
 		$patternStoreKey  = ($patternSubtypeDoc) ? $docPartial."-plsubtype" : $docPartial;
-		
+
+		/**
+		* Setup the Pattern Loader so we can pre-render template markup used
+		* in our markdown files, prior to any markup getting parsed.
+		* Taken from Builder.php
+		*/
+		$ppdExporter             = new PatternPathSrcExporter();
+		$patternPathSrc          = $ppdExporter->run();
+		$options                 = array();
+		$options["patternPaths"] = $patternPathSrc;
+		$patternEngineBasePath   = PatternEngine::getInstance()->getBasePath();
+		$patternLoaderClass      = $patternEngineBasePath . "\Loaders\PatternLoader";
+		$patternLoader           = new $patternLoaderClass($options);
+
+
+		// Combine local + global pattern data.
+		$data = array();
+		$globalData = Data::getPatternSpecificData($docPartial);
+		$localData = PatternData::getOption($docPartial)["data"];
+
+		if ($localData){
+			$data = array_replace_recursive($globalData, $localData);
+		} else {
+			$data = $globalData;
+		}
+
+		// Render the markdown content as a pattern, piping in the pattern-specific data from above.
+		$text = $patternLoader->render(array(
+			"pattern" => $text,
+			"data" => $data
+		));
+
+		// Finally parse the resulting content as normal markup; continue as usual.
+		list($yaml,$markdown) = Documentation::parse($text);
+
+
 		$patternStoreData = array("category"   => $category,
 								  "desc"       => trim($markdown),
 								  "descExists" => true,