Generate lists (gen-list)

The gen-list step examines the input files and creates lists of topics, images, document properties, or other content. These lists are used by later steps in the pipeline. This step is implemented in Java.

For example, one list includes all topics that make use of the conref attribute; only those files are processed during the conref stage of the build. The list file name name is derived from the list file property. For example, the conref.list file is generated for “conreffile” and a corresponding list property is provided for each generated list, in this case “conreflist”.

The result of this step is a set of several list files in the temporary directory, including dita.list and dita.xml.properties.

List file property	List file	Usage
canditopicsfile	canditopics.list
conreffile	conref.list	Documents that contain conref attributes that need to be resolved in preprocess.
conreftargetsfile	conreftargets.list
copytosourcefile	copytosource.list
flagimagefile	flagimage.list
fullditamapandtopicfile	fullditamapandtopic.list	All of the ditamap and topic files that are referenced during the transformation. These may be referenced by href or conref attributes.
fullditamapfile	fullditamap.list	All of the ditamap files in dita.list
fullditatopicfile	fullditatopic.list	All of the topic files in dita.list
hrefditatopicfile	hrefditatopic.list	All of the topic files that are referenced with an href attribute
hreftargetsfile	hreftargets.list	Link targets
htmlfile	html.list	Resource files
imagefile	image.list	Image files that are referenced in the content
outditafilesfile	outditafiles.list
resourceonlyfile	resourceonly.list
subjectschemefile	subjectscheme.list
subtargetsfile	subtargets.list
tempdirToinputmapdir.relative.value
uplevels
user.input.dir		Absolute input directory path
user.input.file.listfile		Input file list file
user.input.file		Input file path, relative to the input directory