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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Adding a new target to the Ant build process</h1>
  8. <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">As of DITA-OT 3.0, the <code class="ph codeph">ant.import</code> extension point can be used to make new targets
  9. available to the Ant processing pipeline. This can be done as part of creating a new transformation, extending
  10. pre-processing, or simply to make new Ant targets available to other plug-ins.</p>
  11. <section><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Procedure</h2></div><ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand">
  12. <span class="ph cmd">Create an Ant project file that contains the new target(s).</span>
  13. </li><li class="li step stepexpand">
  14. <span class="ph cmd">Create the <span class="ph filepath">plugin.xml</span> file:</span>
  15. <div class="itemgroup stepxmp"><pre class="pre codeblock language-xml normalize-space show-line-numbers show-whitespace"><code>&lt;plugin id="<var class="keyword varname">plugin-id</var>"&gt;
  16. &lt;feature extension="ant.import" file="<var class="keyword varname">build-file</var>"/&gt;
  17. &lt;/plugin&gt;</code></pre>where:
  18. <ul class="ul">
  19. <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">plugin-id</var> is the plug-in identifier, for example,
  20. <code class="ph codeph">com.example.ant</code>.</li>
  21. <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">build-file</var> is the Ant project file that contains the new build target(s).</li>
  22. </ul></div>
  23. </li><li class="li step stepexpand">
  24. <span class="ph cmd">Install the plug-in.</span>
  25. </li></ol></section>
  26. <section class="section result"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Results</h2></div>
  27. <p class="p">The targets from the project (<var class="keyword varname">build-file</var>) are copied into the <span class="ph filepath">build.xml</span>
  28. file, using the correct path. This makes the new Ant targets available to other processes.</p>
  29. <div class="note tip note_tip"><span class="note__title">Tip:</span> Earlier versions of DITA-OT use the <code class="ph codeph">dita.conductor.target.relative</code> to call a
  30. wrapper file with a dummy task that imports the Ant project file. This approach is still supported for backwards
  31. compatibility, but the simpler <code class="ph codeph">ant.import</code> approach described above should be used for all new
  32. customizations.</div>
  33. </section>
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