QUESTION PDF DITA XSL

[Le Basque]

Hi,

When i choose "DITA MAP PDF" what is the first file XSL used for PDF publication.


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[Radu]

Hi,

The build file which does DITA to PDF processing is this one:

....\DITA-OT\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml

There are various stages, first the content references are resolved in the preproces stage, then the XSLT ....\DITA-OT\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\xsl\common\topicmerge.xsl is applied to obtain an XML file which contains all the content of the referenced topics in one content.
Then depending on what FO processor is applied another stylesheet is called on the merged content. For example if you are using Apache FOP this top-level XSLT is located in:

.../DITA-OT/plugins/org.dita.pdf2/xsl/fo/topic2fo_shell_fop.xsl

Regards,
Radu

[Le Basque]

Thank you