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- transformations that are supported by the DITA Open Toolkit.</p><section class="section"><dl class="dl parml"><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.debug"><span class="keyword parmname">args.debug</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.debug.desc">Specifies whether debugging information is included in the log. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">yes</span> and <span class="keyword option">no</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">no</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.draft"><span class="keyword parmname">args.draft</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.draft.desc">Specifies whether the content of <draft-comment> and <required-cleanup> elements is included in the output. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">yes</span> and <span class="keyword option">no</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">no</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">Corresponds to the XSLT parameter
- <span class="keyword parmname">DRAFT</span> in most XSLT modules.<div class="note tip note_tip"><span class="note__title tiptitle">Tip:</span> For PDF output, setting the
- <span class="keyword parmname">args.draft</span> parameter to <span class="keyword option">yes</span> causes the contents of the
- <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement"><titlealts></code> element to be rendered below the title.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.figurelink.style"><span class="keyword parmname">args.figurelink.style</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.figurelink.style.desc">Specifies how cross references to figures are styled in output. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">NUMBER</span>, <span class="keyword option">TITLE</span>, and <span class="keyword option">NUMTITLE</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">Specifying <span class="keyword option">NUMBER</span> results in "Figure 5"; specifying
- <span class="keyword option">TITLE</span> results in the title of the figure. <span class="ph">Corresponds to
- the XSLT parameter <span class="keyword parmname">FIGURELINK</span>.</span><div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> Support for PDF was added in
- DITA-OT 2.0. By default PDF uses the value <span class="keyword option">NUMTITLE</span>, which is not supported for other
- transformation types; this results in "Figure 5. Title".</div></dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.filter"><span class="keyword parmname">args.filter</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.filter.desc">Specifies a filter file to be used to include, exclude, or flag content.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.gen.task.lbl"><span class="keyword parmname">args.gen.task.lbl</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.gen.task.lbl.desc">Specifies whether to generate headings for sections within task topics. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">YES</span> and <span class="keyword option">NO</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.grammar.cache"><span class="keyword parmname">args.grammar.cache</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.grammar.cache.desc">Specifies whether the grammar-caching feature of the XML parser is used. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">yes</span> and <span class="keyword option">no</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">yes</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> This option dramatically speeds up processing time. However, there is a known problem with using
- this feature for documents that use XML entities. If your build fails with parser errors about entity
- resolution, set this parameter to <span class="keyword option">no</span>.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.input"><span class="keyword parmname">args.input</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.input.desc">Specifies the master file for your documentation project.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">Typically this is a DITA map, however it also can be a DITA topic if you want to
- transform a single DITA file. The path can be absolute, relative to <span class="keyword parmname">args.input.dir</span>,
- or relative to the directory where your project's ant build script resides if
- <span class="keyword parmname">args.input.dir</span> is not defined. </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.input.dir"><span class="keyword parmname">args.input.dir</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.input.dir.desc">Specifies the base directory for your documentation project.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">The default value is the parent directory of the file specified by
- <span class="keyword parmname">args.input</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.logdir"><span class="keyword parmname">args.logdir</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.logdir.desc">Specifies the location where the DITA-OT places log files for your project.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.rellinks"><span class="keyword parmname">args.rellinks</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.rellinks.desc">Specifies which links to include in the output. The following values are supported:<ul class="ul"><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">none</span> – No links are included.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">all</span> – All links are included.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">noparent</span> – Parent links are not included.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">nofamily</span> – Parent, child, next, and previous links are not included.</li></ul></dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__args.tablelink.style"><span class="keyword parmname">args.tablelink.style</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__args.tablelink.style.desc">Specifies how cross references to tables are styled. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">NUMBER</span>, <span class="keyword option">TITLE</span>, and <span class="keyword option">NUMTITLE</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">Specifying <span class="keyword option">NUMBER</span> results in "Table 5"; specifying
- <span class="keyword option">TITLE</span> results in the title of the table. <span class="ph">Corresponds to
- the XSLT parameter <span class="keyword parmname">TABLELINK</span>.</span><div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> Support for PDF was added in
- DITA-OT 2.0. By default PDF uses the value <span class="keyword option">NUMTITLE</span>, which is not supported for other
- transformation types; this results in "Table 5. Title".</div></dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__clean.temp"><span class="keyword parmname">clean.temp</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__clean.temp.desc">Specifies whether the DITA-OT deletes the files in the temporary directory after it finishes a build. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">yes</span> and <span class="keyword option">no</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">yes</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand"></dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__conserve-memory"><span class="keyword parmname">conserve-memory</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__conserve-memory.desc">Conserve memory at the expense of processing speed The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">true</span> and <span class="keyword option">false</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">false</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__dita.dir"><span class="keyword parmname">dita.dir</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__dita.dir.desc">Specifies where the DITA-OT is installed.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__dita.input.valfile"><span class="keyword parmname">dita.input.valfile</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__dita.input.valfile.desc">Specifies a filter file to be used to include, exclude, or flag content.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> Deprecated in favor of the <span class="keyword parmname">args.filter</span> parameter.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__dita.preprocess.reloadstylesheet.topicpull"><span class="keyword parmname">dita.preprocess.reloadstylesheet.topicpull</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__dita.preprocess.reloadstylesheet.topicpull.desc">Specifies whether the DITA-OT reloads the XSL style sheets that are used for the transformation. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">true</span> and <span class="keyword option">false</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">false</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__dita.temp.dir"><span class="keyword parmname">dita.temp.dir</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__dita.temp.dir.desc">Specifies the location of the temporary directory.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">The temporary directory is where the DITA-OT writes temporary files that are
- generated during the transformation process.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__filter-stage"><span class="keyword parmname">filter-stage</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__filter-stage.desc">Specifies whether filtering is done before all other processing, or after key and conref processing. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">early</span> and <span class="keyword option">late</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">early</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> Changing the filtering stage may produce different results for the same initial data set and
- filtering conditions.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__force-unique"><span class="keyword parmname">force-unique</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__force-unique.desc">Generate copy-to attributes to duplicate topicref elements. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">true</span> and <span class="keyword option">false</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">false</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
-
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__generate-debug-attributes"><span class="keyword parmname">generate-debug-attributes</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__generate-debug-attributes.desc">Specifies whether the @xtrf and @xtrc debugging attributes are generated in the temporary files. The following values are supported:<ul class="ul"><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">true</span> (default) – Enables generation of debugging attributes</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">false</span> – Disables generation of debugging attributes</li></ul></dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title notetitle">Note:</span> Disabling debugging attributes reduces the size of temporary files and thus reduces memory
- consumption. However, the log messages no longer have the source information available and thus the
- ability to debug problems might deteriorate.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__generate.copy.outer"><span class="keyword parmname">generate.copy.outer</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__generate.copy.outer.desc">Specifies whether to generate output files for content that is not located in or beneath the directory containing the DITA map file. The following values are supported:<ul class="ul"><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">1</span> (default) – Do not generate output for content that is located outside the DITA map directory.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">3</span> – Shift the output directory so that it contains all output for the publication.</li></ul></dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <p class="p">See <a class="xref" href="generate-copy-outer.html" title="Elaboration on how the generate.copy.outer parameter functions.">generate.copy.outer parameter</a> for more information.</p>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__onlytopic.in.map"><span class="keyword parmname">onlytopic.in.map</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__onlytopic.in.map.desc">Specifies whether files that are linked to, or referenced with a @conref attribute, generate output. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">true</span> and <span class="keyword option">false</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">false</span>.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">If set to <span class="keyword option">true</span>, only files that are referenced directly from the
- map will generate output; the default value is <span class="keyword option">false</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__outer.control"><span class="keyword parmname">outer.control</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__outer.control.desc">Specifies how the DITA-OT handles content files that are not located in or below the directory containing the master DITA map. The following values are supported:<ul class="ul"><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">fail</span> – Fail quickly if files are going to be generated or copied outside of the directory.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">warn</span> (default) – Complete the operation if files will be generated or copied outside of the directory, but log a warning.</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">quiet</span> – Quietly finish without generating warnings or errors.</li></ul></dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">
- <div class="note warning note_warning"><span class="note__title warningtitle">Warning:</span> Microsoft HTML Help Compiler cannot produce HTML Help for
- documentation projects that use outer content. The content files must reside in or below the directory
- containing the master DITA map file, and the map file cannot specify ".." at the start of the
- <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@href</code> attributes for <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement"><topicref></code> elements.</div>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__output.dir"><span class="keyword parmname">output.dir</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__output.dir.desc">Specifies the name and location of the output directory.</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">By default, the output is written to
- <span class="ph filepath"><var class="keyword varname">DITA-dir</var>/out</span>.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__processing-mode"><span class="keyword parmname">processing-mode</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__processing-mode.desc">Specifies how the DITA-OT handles errors and error recovery. The following values are supported:<ul class="ul"><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">strict</span> – When an error is encountered, the DITA-OT stops processing</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">lax</span> (default) – When an error is encountered, the DITA-OT attempts to recover from it</li><li class="li"><span class="keyword option">skip</span> – When an error is encountered, the DITA-OT continues processing but does not attempt error recovery</li></ul></dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__root-chunk-override"><span class="keyword parmname">root-chunk-override</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__root-chunk-override.desc">Override for map chunk attribute value.</dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__transtype"><span class="keyword parmname">transtype</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__transtype.desc">Specifies the output format (transformation type).</dd><dd class="dd pd ddexpand">You can create plug-ins to add new values for this parameter; by default, the
- following values are available:
- <ul class="ul">
- <li class="li">docbook</li>
- <li class="li">eclipsehelp</li>
- <li class="li">eclipsecontent</li>
- <li class="li">html5</li>
- <li class="li">htmlhelp</li>
- <li class="li">javahelp</li>
- <li class="li">odt</li>
- <li class="li">pdf</li>
- <li class="li">wordrtf</li>
- <li class="li">troff</li>
- <li class="li">xhtml</li>
- </ul>
- </dd><dt class="dt pt dlterm" id="base__validate"><span class="keyword parmname">validate</span></dt><dd class="dd pd" id="base__validate.desc">Specifies whether the DITA-OT validates the content. The allowed values are <span class="keyword option">true</span> and <span class="keyword option">false</span>; the default value is <span class="keyword option">true</span>.</dd></dl></section></div><nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../parameters/parameters_intro.html" title="Certain parameters apply to all DITA-OT transformations. Other parameters are common to the HTML-based transformations. Some parameters apply only to specific transformation types. These parameters can be passed as options to the dita command using the -Dparameter-name=value syntax or included in build scripts as Ant properties.">DITA-OT parameters</a></div></div></nav></article></main></body></html>
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