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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