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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">DITA Open Toolkit Developer Reference</h1>
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- <span class="ph" id="ID__ph_docs-dr-desc">The <cite class="cite">Developer Reference</cite> is designed to provide more advanced information about
- the DITA-OT. It is geared to an audience that needs information about the DITA-OT architecture, extending the
- DITA-OT, and creating DITA-OT plug-ins.</span>
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- <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/DITA-OTArchitecture.html">Architecture of the DITA Open Toolkit</a></strong><br>The DITA Open Toolkit is an open-source implementation of the OASIS specification for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. The toolkit uses Ant, XSLT, and Java to transform DITA content (maps and topics) into different deliverable formats.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/extending-the-ot.html">Extending the DITA Open Toolkit</a></strong><br>There are several methods that can be used to extend the toolkit; not all of them are recommended or supported. The best way to create most extensions is with a plug-in; extended documentation for creating plug-ins is provided in the next section.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/plugin-creating.html">Creating plug-ins</a></strong><br>You can use DITA-OT plug-ins to extend the DITA Open Toolkit.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/plugin-extension-points.html">Extension points</a></strong><br>The DITA Open Toolkit provides a series of extension points that can be used to integrate changes into the core code. Extension points are defined in the <span class="ph filepath">plugin.xml</span> file for each plug-in. When plug-ins are installed, the DITA-OT makes each extension visible to the rest of the toolkit.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/pdf-customization.html">Customizing PDF output</a></strong><br>You can create custom DITA-OT plug-ins that build on the default DITA to PDF transformation. Plug-ins can customize covers and page layouts, modify formatting, override logic of the default PDF plug-in, and much more.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../dev_ref/migration.html">Migrating customizations</a></strong><br>If you have XSL transformation overrides, plug-ins or other customizations written prior to DITA-OT <span class="keyword">2.3</span>, you may need to make changes to ensure your overrides work properly with the latest toolkit versions. </li></ul></nav></article></main></body></html>
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