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XPP plugin DITA-OT setup

For the XPP integration to function as expected, you must configure the ishxpp plugin within DITA-OT.

DITA-OT functionality

This plugin ensures that the generated content is complaint with the structure that is expected by XPP. The steps include:
  • Pre-process the published content to resolve the conref statements, calculate the title of the linked items.
  • Merge the files into one xml file.
  • Structure the merged xml file.
  • Generalize the merged xml file.
  • Validate the merged xml file.

Files required

To configure the DITA-OT plugin, you must put the ishxpp folder in the plugins folder of the DITA-OT.

Procedure to manually install the DITA-OT plugin

To manually install the XPP plugin in the DITA-OT instance, follow these steps:
  1. Copy the ishxpp folder to the following location in your Content Manager environment: <drive-letter>:\Infoshare\App<project-suffix>\Utilities\DITA-OT\Infoshare\plugins\