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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Normalized DITA</h1>
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- <div class="body"><p class="shortdesc">The <code class="ph codeph">dita</code> transformation generates normalized topics and maps from DITA input. The
- normalized output includes the results of DITA Open Toolkit pre-processing operations, which resolve map references,
- keys, content references, code references and push metadata back and forth between maps and topics.</p>
- <p class="p">In comparison to the source DITA files, the normalized DITA files are modified in the following ways:</p>
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- <li class="li">References from one DITA map to another are resolved</li>
- <li class="li">Map-based links, such as those generated by map hierarchy and relationship tables, are added to the
- topics.</li>
- <li class="li">Link text is resolved.</li>
- <li class="li">Map attributes that cascade are made explicit on child elements.</li>
- <li class="li">Map metadata such as index entries and copyrights are pushed into topics.</li>
- <li class="li">Topic metadata such as navigation titles, link text and short descriptions are pulled from topics into the
- map.</li>
- <li class="li">XML comments are removed.</li>
- </ul>
- <section class="section" id="normalized-dita__applications"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Applications</h2>
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- <p class="p">Normalized output may be useful in situations where post-processing of DITA content is required, but the
- downstream systems are limited in their ability to resolve DITA references.</p></section>
- <section class="section" id="normalized-dita__generating-normalized-dita-output"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Generating normalized DITA output</h2>
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- <p class="p">Run the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command and set the value of the output <span class="keyword parmname">--format</span> option to
- <span class="keyword option">dita</span>:</p><pre class="pre codeblock"><code><span class="ph filepath"><var class="keyword varname">dita-ot-dir</var>/bin/<span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span></span> <span class="keyword parmname">--input</span>=<var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> <span class="keyword parmname">--format</span>=<span class="keyword option">dita</span></code></pre>
- <p class="p">where:</p>
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- <li class="li"><span class="ph filepath"><var class="keyword varname">dita-ot-dir</var></span> is the DITA-OT installation directory.</li><li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> is the DITA map or DITA file that you want to
- process.</li>
- </ul>
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