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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Plug-in applications</h1>
- <p class="shortdesc">Plug-ins allow you to extend the functionality of DITA-OT. This might entail adding support for specialized
- document types, integrating processing overrides, or defining new output transformations.</p>
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- <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-xmlcatalog.html">Extending an XML catalog file</a></strong><br>You can update either the main DITA-OT XML catalog or the XML catalog that is used by the PDF plug-in. This enables DITA-OT to support new specializations and document-type shells.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-anttarget.html">Adding a new target to the Ant build process</a></strong><br>As of DITA-OT 3.0, the <code class="ph codeph">ant.import</code> 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.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-antpreprocess.html">Adding an Ant target to the pre-processing pipeline</a></strong><br>You can add an Ant target to the pre-processing pipeline. This enables you to insert additional processing before or after the pre-processing chain or a specific step in the pre-processing operation.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-newtranstype.html">Adding a new transformation type</a></strong><br>Plug-ins can add an entirely new transformation type. The new transformation type can be very simple, such as an HTML build that creates an additional control file; it also can be very complex, adding any number of new processing steps.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-overridestyle.html">Overriding an XSLT-processing step</a></strong><br>You can override specific XSLT-processing steps in both the pre-processing pipeline and certain DITA-OT transformations.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/using-plugin-URI-extension.html">Referencing files from other plug-ins</a></strong><br>Starting with DITA-OT 1.5.4, you can use the <span class="ph filepath">plugin:<var class="keyword varname">plugin-id</var></span> URI extension and the <span class="ph filepath">${dita.plugin.<var class="keyword varname">plugin-id</var>.dir}</span> Ant variable to reference the base path of another installed DITA-OT plug-in.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-xsltparams.html">Adding parameters to existing XSLT steps</a></strong><br>You can pass parameters from the Ant build to existing XSLT steps in both the pre-processing pipeline and certain DITA-OT transformations. This can be useful if you want to make the parameters available as global <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement"><xsl:param></code> values within XSLT overrides.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-javalib.html">Adding a Java library to the DITA-OT classpath</a></strong><br>You can use the <code class="ph codeph">dita.conductor.lib.import</code> extension point to add an additional Java library to the DITA-OT <span class="keyword parmname">classpath</span> parameter.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-messages.html">Adding new diagnostic messages</a></strong><br>Use the <code class="ph codeph">dita.xsl.messages</code> extension point to add plug-in-specific messages to the diagnostic messages that are generated by DITA-OT. These messages then can be used by any XSLT override.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-newextensions.html">Creating a new plug-in extension point</a></strong><br>If your plug-in needs to define its own extension point in an XML file, add the string "<code class="ph codeph">_template</code>" to the filename before the file suffix. When the plug-in is installed, this file will be processed like the built-in DITA-OT templates.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/implement-saxon-customizations.html">Adding Saxon customizations</a></strong><br>Plug-ins can contribute XSLT extension functions and collation URI resolvers. These customizations are automatically configured to work with Saxon when transformations are run using the DITA-OT <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement"><pipeline></code> task with custom XSLT.</li></ul><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../topics/custom-plugins.html" title="You can install or create DITA-OT plug-ins to change the default output types in various ways, add entirely new kinds of output formats, or implement DITA topic specializations.">Working with plug-ins</a></div></div></nav></article></main></body></html>
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