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This is the documentation for the current DITA Open Toolkit release 4.3. Switch to the latest development docs.

  • DITA Open Toolkit 4.3
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    • DITA-OT architecture
      • Processing structure
      • Map-first pre-processing
      • Processing modules
      • Processing order
      • Store API
      • Pre-processing modules
        • Generate lists (gen-list)
        • Debug and filter (debug-filter)
        • Resolve map references (mapref)
        • Branch filtering (branch-filter)
        • Resolve key references (keyref)
        • Copy topics (copy-to)
        • Conref push (conrefpush)
        • Resolve content references (conref)
        • Filter conditional content (profile)
        • Resolve topic fragments and code references (topic-fragment)
        • Chunk topics (chunk)
        • Move metadata (move-meta-entries) and pull content into maps (mappull)
        • Map-based linking (maplink)
        • Pull content into topics (topicpull)
        • Flagging (flag-module)
        • Map cleanup (clean-map)
        • Copy related files (copy-files)
      • HTML-based processing modules
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Map cleanup (clean-map)

The clean-map step removes any elements and attributes that were added to files to support pre-processing.

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