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Conversion phase

During the conversion phase, the following operations take place: validation of DITA content against the Content Manager DTDs; GUID generation; Content Manager condition generation; and creation of the filemap.xml file.

Content Importer converts files with the following file extensions:
  • DITA
  • DITAMAP
  • XML
Content Importer ignores files with other file extensions.

Validation

The DITA maps and topics are validated against the Content Manager DTDs. By default, these are located using the catalog.xml file that is located on the Content Manager server. You also can specify a local file.

GUID generation

The values of the following attributes are converted to GUIDs:
  • The @id attributes on the root elements
  • The @href attributes on all elements
The values of @keyref attributes are not modified.
If a GUID is present in one of the following items, it is used:
  • A existing filemap.xml file
  • A .met file
  • The file name of the object to be imported

Content Manager condition generation

The DITA conditional-processing attributes and their values are converted to Content Manager conditions. For example, otherprops="screen_shots" is converted to ishcondition="otherprops=screen_shots".

File generation

The DITA2Trisoft_ProcessLog.log and filemap.xml files are written to the input directory. If there are .met files for the DITA objects, the metadata in the .met files is copied into the filemap.xml file.