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+"""Test our handling of metadata in files with bibliographic metadata."""
+
+# adapted from an example of bibliographic metadata at
+# https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/demo.txt
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.sphinx('dummy', testroot='metadata')
+def test_docinfo(app, status, warning):
+    """
+    Inspect the 'docinfo' metadata stored in the first node of the document.
+    Note this doesn't give us access to data stored in subsequence blocks
+    that might be considered document metadata, such as 'abstract' or
+    'dedication' blocks, or the 'meta' role. Doing otherwise is probably more
+    messing with the internals of sphinx than this rare use case merits.
+    """
+    app.build()
+    expecteddocinfo = {
+        'author': 'David Goodger',
+        'authors': ['Me', 'Myself', 'I'],
+        'address': '123 Example Street\nExample, EX  Canada\nA1B 2C3',
+        'field name': 'This is a generic bibliographic field.',
+        'field name 2': ('Generic bibliographic fields may contain multiple '
+                         'body elements.\n\nLike this.'),
+        'status': 'This is a “work in progress”',
+        'version': '1',
+        'copyright': ('This document has been placed in the public domain. '
+                      'You\nmay do with it as you wish. You may copy, modify,'
+                      '\nredistribute, reattribute, sell, buy, rent, lease,\n'
+                      'destroy, or improve it, quote it at length, excerpt,\n'
+                      'incorporate, collate, fold, staple, or mutilate it, or '
+                      'do\nanything else to it that your or anyone else’s '
+                      'heart\ndesires.'),
+        'contact': 'goodger@python.org',
+        'date': '2006-05-21',
+        'organization': 'humankind',
+        'revision': '4564',
+        'tocdepth': 1,
+        'orphan': '',
+        'nocomments': '',
+    }
+    assert app.env.metadata['index'] == expecteddocinfo