Adding a new target to the Ant build process As of DITA-OT 3.0, the ant.import extension point can be used to make new targets available to the Ant processing pipeline. This can be done as part of creating a new transformation, extending pre-processing, or simply to make new Ant targets available to other plug-ins. plug-insAnt ant.import preprocessing Anttargets Create an Ant project file that contains the new target(s). Create the plugin.xml file: <plugin id="plugin-id"> <feature extension="ant.import" file="build-file"/> </plugin>where:
  • plugin-id is the plug-in identifier, for example, com.example.ant.
  • build-file is the Ant project file that contains the new build target(s).
 Install the plug-in.

The targets from the project (build-file) are copied into the build.xml file, using the correct path. This makes the new Ant targets available to other processes.

Earlier versions of DITA-OT use the dita.conductor.target.relative to call a wrapper file with a dummy task that imports the Ant project file. This approach is still supported for backwards compatibility, but the simpler ant.import approach described above should be used for all new customizations.