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  4. <p>DITA Open Toolkit</p>
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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Glossary</h1>
  8. <p class="shortdesc">Certain terms have particular meaning in the context of the DITA Open Toolkit project.</p>
  9. <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../reference/index.html" title="The Reference topics provide more advanced information about the DITA-OT architecture, OASIS specification support, and licensing.">Reference</a></div></div></nav><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title2" id="gloss-argument">
  10. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title2">argument</h2>
  11. <div class="abstract glossdef">Required parameter passed to the Ant process or <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command.</div>
  12. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title3" id="gloss-dita-open-toolkit">
  13. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title3">DITA Open Toolkit</h2>
  14. <div class="body conbody glossBody"><div class="abstract glossdef">The open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing
  15. Architecture.</div>
  16. <section class="section glossAlt"><h3 class="title glossAbbreviation sectiontitle">DITA-OT</h3>
  17. <div class="note glossUsage note note_note"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> Treat as a proper noun; do not precede with <em class="ph i">the</em> definite article.</div>
  18. </section>
  19. <section class="section glossAlt"><h3 class="title glossAcronym sectiontitle">DOST</h3>
  20. <div class="note glossUsage note note_note"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> Deprecated acronym for “<strong class="ph b">D</strong>ITA <strong class="ph b">O</strong>pen <em class="ph i"><strong class="ph b">S</strong>ource</em>
  21. <strong class="ph b">T</strong>oolkit”. Use <dfn class="term">DITA-OT</dfn> instead.</div>
  22. </section>
  23. </div>
  24. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title4" id="gloss-extension-point">
  25. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title4">extension point</h2>
  26. <div class="abstract glossdef">Pre-defined interface that can be added to a plug-in to allow other plug-ins to extend or customize portions
  27. of its functionality. An extendable feature is defined by declaring an <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;extension-point&gt;</code>
  28. element in the <span class="ph filepath">plugin.xml</span> file. Other plug-ins can then override the default behavior by
  29. defining custom code that runs when this extension point is called.</div>
  30. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title5" id="gloss-option">
  31. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title5">option</h2>
  32. <div class="abstract glossdef">Discretionary parameter passed to the Ant process or <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command.</div>
  33. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title6" id="gloss-output-format">
  34. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title6">output format</h2>
  35. <div class="abstract glossdef">Deliverable file or set of files containing all of the transformed content.</div>
  36. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title7" id="gloss-parameter">
  37. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title7">parameter</h2>
  38. <div class="abstract glossdef">Command-line argument or option passed to the Ant process or <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command.</div>
  39. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title8" id="gloss-plug-in">
  40. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title8">plug-in</h2>
  41. <div class="abstract glossdef">Group of related files that change the default behavior of DITA-OT in some way.</div>
  42. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title9" id="gloss-processor">
  43. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title9">processor</h2>
  44. <div class="abstract glossdef">Software that performs a series of operations to transform DITA content from one format to
  45. another.</div>
  46. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title10" id="gloss-property">
  47. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title10">property</h2>
  48. <div class="abstract glossdef">Ant-specific argument or option.</div>
  49. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title11" id="gloss-template-plugin">
  50. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title11">template</h2>
  51. <div class="abstract glossdef">Optional <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;template&gt;</code> elements can be added to <span class="ph filepath">plugin.xml</span> files to
  52. define XML or XSL files that integrate DITA-OT extensions. Template files are often named with a
  53. <span class="ph filepath">_template</span> suffix, and may be used to create custom extensions, group targets, and more.
  54. Anything contained in the plug-in’s template files is integrated when the plug-in is installed.</div>
  55. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title12" id="gloss-transformation-type">
  56. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title12">transformation type</h2>
  57. <div class="body conbody glossBody"><div class="abstract glossdef">Component of a plug-in that defines an output format.</div>
  58. <section class="section glossAlt"><h3 class="title glossAbbreviation sectiontitle">transtype</h3>
  59. <div class="note glossUsage note note_note"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> Abbreviated form of <dfn class="term">transformation type</dfn>. Use only to refer to the
  60. <span class="keyword parmname">transtype</span> parameter of the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command, or to the
  61. <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;transtype&gt;</code> element in a <span class="ph filepath">plugin.xml</span> file that defines the output
  62. format.</div>
  63. </section>
  64. </div>
  65. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title13" id="gloss-variable">
  66. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title13">variable</h2>
  67. <div class="abstract glossdef">Language-specific piece of generated text, most often defined in the files in
  68. <span class="ph filepath">org.dita.base\xsl\common</span>.</div>
  69. </article><article class="topic concept glossentry nested1" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title14" id="gloss-template-xslt">
  70. <h2 class="title glossterm topictitle2" id="ariaid-title14">XSL template</h2>
  71. <div class="abstract glossdef">Set of rules in an XSL stylesheet that are applied to nodes that match specific XML structures.</div>
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