From e8ed40ef01efdba315ec995c99da31a55bf55c57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tuong Nguyen Manh <tuongnm88@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:28:59 +0100
Subject: DocBook reader: Fix adding wrong metadata (#11347)

Now keep track of the current element stack to only add metadata if
inside an appropriate parent element.

Closes #11300.
---
 src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs | 21 ++++++++----
 test/command/11300.md              | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/command/11300.md

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
index 38e67e87e..66128b12e 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ data DBState = DBState{ dbSectionLevel  :: Int
                       , dbBook          :: Bool
                       , dbContent       :: [Content]
                       , dbLiteralLayout :: Bool
+                      , dbElementStack  :: [Text]
                       } deriving Show
 
 instance Default DBState where
@@ -556,7 +557,9 @@ instance Default DBState where
                , dbMeta = mempty
                , dbBook = False
                , dbContent = []
-               , dbLiteralLayout = False }
+               , dbLiteralLayout = False
+               , dbElementStack = []
+               }
 
 
 readDocBook :: (PandocMonad m, ToSources a)
@@ -621,9 +624,13 @@ named s e = qName (elName e) == s
 --
 
 addMetadataFromElement :: PandocMonad m => Element -> DB m Blocks
-addMetadataFromElement e =
-  mempty <$ mapM_ handleMetadataElement
+addMetadataFromElement e = do
+  -- Add metadata if at root or appropriate parent element
+  elementStack <- gets dbElementStack
+  if take 1 elementStack `elem` [[], ["book"], ["article"]]
+    then mempty <$ mapM_ handleMetadataElement
                   (filterChildren ((isMetadataField . qName . elName)) e)
+    else return mempty
  where
   handleMetadataElement elt =
     case qName (elName elt) of
@@ -853,9 +860,11 @@ getMediaobject e = do
   fmap (imageWith attr imageUrl tit) capt
 
 getBlocks :: PandocMonad m => Element -> DB m Blocks
-getBlocks e =  mconcat <$>
-                 mapM parseBlock (elContent e)
-
+getBlocks e = do
+  modify (\st -> st{ dbElementStack = qName (elName e) : dbElementStack st })
+  blocks <- mconcat <$> mapM parseBlock (elContent e)
+  modify (\st -> st{ dbElementStack = drop 1 $ dbElementStack st })
+  return blocks
 
 parseBlock :: PandocMonad m => Content -> DB m Blocks
 parseBlock (Text (CData CDataRaw _ _)) = return mempty -- DOCTYPE
diff --git a/test/command/11300.md b/test/command/11300.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..141d46248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/11300.md
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f docbook -t native -s
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" dir="ltr">
+  <info>
+    <title>Book title</title>
+    <subtitle>Book subtitle</subtitle>
+  </info>
+  <chapter>
+    <info>
+      <title>Chapter title</title>
+    </info>
+    <para>My sentence</para>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+^D
+Pandoc
+  Meta
+    { unMeta =
+        fromList
+          [ ( "subtitle"
+            , MetaInlines [ Str "Book" , Space , Str "subtitle" ]
+            )
+          , ( "title"
+            , MetaInlines [ Str "Book" , Space , Str "title" ]
+            )
+          ]
+    }
+  [ Header
+      1 ( "" , [] , [] ) [ Str "Chapter" , Space , Str "title" ]
+  , Para [ Str "My" , Space , Str "sentence" ]
+  ]
+```
+
+```
+% pandoc -f docbook -t native -s
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" dir="ltr">
+  <chapter>
+    <info>
+      <title>Chapter title</title>
+    </info>
+    <para>My sentence</para>
+  </chapter>
+  <info>
+    <title>Book title</title>
+    <subtitle>Book subtitle</subtitle>
+  </info>
+</book>
+^D
+Pandoc
+  Meta
+    { unMeta =
+        fromList
+          [ ( "subtitle"
+            , MetaInlines [ Str "Book" , Space , Str "subtitle" ]
+            )
+          , ( "title"
+            , MetaInlines [ Str "Book" , Space , Str "title" ]
+            )
+          ]
+    }
+  [ Header
+      1 ( "" , [] , [] ) [ Str "Chapter" , Space , Str "title" ]
+  , Para [ Str "My" , Space , Str "sentence" ]
+  ]
+```
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