Objective
Need to customize HTML output when we publish a publication from Tridion Docs.
How to Do it
We need to create DITA-OT plugin which extends html5 plugin
Let’s do it
What we need is Tridion Docs installed on server😉
And we should be able to publish content on HTML5
Status should be ‘Release Candidate’ or ‘Draft’
after publish a publication
And you will see html output once click on download as below
For Map
For Topic
Let’s do some stuff with this HTML output
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What we are going to do
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We’ll apply some CSS on output and also add SDL
logo as well.
We are going to need custom output format where we’ll
publish this publication.
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Let’s name it like ‘Exercise-html5output’
What we are going to learn
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Create output format with style processor on
Tridion Docs
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Customize DITA-OT html output
Here are steps to create new output format
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Go to Tridion docs installation folder
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%TRIDION_DOCS%\Web\Author\ASP\ClientConfig
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Take backup of MetadataConfig.xml
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Open MetadataConfig.xml and Search for
DitaOTTransactionTypeField
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Add following xml tag on enumlist tag to add
transtype on Tridion Docs
<item>
<value>exercise-html5</value>
<label resourceref="FDITAOTTRANSTYPE.ValueList.exercise-html5.Text">exercise-html5</label>
</item>
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Search for StyleProcessorField on Metadaconfig.xml
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Add following xml tag to add style processor on
Tridion Docs
<item>
<value>DITA-OT\Exercise</value>
<label
resourceref="FSTYLEPROCESSOR.ValueList.Exercise.Text">Exercise</label>
</item>
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To Create Style-processor on Tridion Docs folder
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Go to %TRIDION_DOCS%\App\Utilities\DITA-OT
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Copy Infoshare and paste it and rename new
folder to Exercise

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Now Open Tridion Docs webclient
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Go to Settings -> Output Format

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Click on new button
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Add following information on output format window
and click ok

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Now Update publish plug-in setting as this
transformtype is not configured on Publish setting
Open Publish Plug-in setting add “exercise-html5” transformation type and save
it

Restart service “Trisoft
InfoShare BackgroundTask One”
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This allows publication to publish on
exercise-html5 output format.
Let’s Customize HTML format now
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As we created Style-processor on one previous
step, we will create exercise-html5 plugin
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What is StyleProcessor in Tridion Docs
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StyleProcessor is DITA-OT for Tridion docs,
which process input DITA and render different output based on given transformation
type to processor
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In our case we’ll use transformation type
exercise-html5.
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To Create plugin Go to directory %TRIDION_DOCS%\App\Utilities\DITA-OT\Exercise\plugins

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Right click create New folder give some name to
folder which will denote your custom plugin.
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In my case I’ll give name com.sdl.exercise-html5

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Go to com.sdl.exercise-html5 directory do
following steps to develop plugin
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Create plugin.xml as DITA-OT tool will
look for plugin.xml and perform operations based on that
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="dita-ot/plugin.rnc"
type="application/relax-ng-compact-syntax"?>
<plugin id="com.sdl.exercise-html5">
<feature
extension="package.version" value="1.0"/>
<require plugin="org.dita.html5"/>
<transtype
name="exercise-html5" extends="html5" desc="HTML5
Customized" />
</plugin>
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Require tag on above xml allows plugin to extend
“org.dita.html5” plugin which comes with dita-ot.
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Let’s add some feature to plugin
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Add <feature
extension="dita.conductor.target.relative"
file="integrator.xml"/> after transtype tag and we’ll create
integrator.xml and write some xml instructions on it.

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Please visit https://www.dita-ot.org/3.5/topics/html-customization.html
to understand xml tags mentioned above.
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Now we need to provide
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exercise-html5.xsl
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map2html5-cover.xsl
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exercise.css
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images directory
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this would look like




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Let’s look at each file
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exercise.css

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exercise-html5.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- This file is part of the DITA Open Toolkit project.
See the accompanying license.txt file for applicable licenses. --><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:dita-ot="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ns/201007/dita-ot" version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xs dita-ot">
<xsl:import href="plugin:org.dita.html5:xsl/dita2html5.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="chapterBody">
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="addAttributesToHtmlBodyElement"/>
<xsl:call-template name="setaname"/> <!-- For HTML4 compatibility, if needed -->
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="addHeaderToHtmlBodyElement"/>
<!-- Include a user's XSL call here to generate a toc based on what's a child of topic -->
<xsl:call-template name="gen-user-sidetoc"/>
<nav><div class="milogo-wrapper"><a href="index.html"><img src="images/SDL_Logo.png"/></a></div></nav>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="addContentToHtmlBodyElement"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="addFooterToHtmlBodyElement"/>
</body>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/image ')]/@height">
<xsl:variable name="height-in-pixel">
<xsl:call-template name="length-to-pixels">
<xsl:with-param name="dimen" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="not($height-in-pixel = '100%')">
<xsl:attribute name="height">
<!--xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="../@scale and string(number(../@scale))!='NaN'">
<xsl:value-of select="number($height-in-pixel) * number(../@scale)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise-->
<xsl:value-of select="number($height-in-pixel)*2"/>
<!--/xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose-->
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/image ')]/@width">
<xsl:variable name="width-in-pixel">
<xsl:call-template name="length-to-pixels">
<xsl:with-param name="dimen" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="not($width-in-pixel = '100%')">
<xsl:attribute name="width">
<!--xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="../@scale and string(number(../@scale))!='NaN'">
<xsl:value-of select="number($width-in-pixel) * number(../@scale)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise-->
<xsl:value-of select="number($width-in-pixel)*2"/>
<!--/xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose-->
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:output xmlns:dita="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net" method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" doctype-system="about:legacy-compat" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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map2html5-cover.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- This file is part of the DITA Open Toolkit project.
See the accompanying license.txt file for applicable licenses. -->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:import href="plugin:org.dita.html5:xsl/dita2html5.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="plugin:org.dita.xhtml:xsl/map2html-coverImpl.xsl"/>
<xsl:import href="plugin:com.sdl.exercise-html5:xsl/exercise-nav.xsl"/>
<xsl:output xmlns:dita="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net" method="html" encoding="UTF-8" doctype-system="about:legacy-compat" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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exercise-nav.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- This file is part of the DITA Open Toolkit project.
See the accompanying license.txt file for applicable licenses. --><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:dita-ot="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ns/201007/dita-ot" version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xs dita-ot">
<xsl:import href="plugin:org.dita.xhtml:xsl/map2html-coverImpl.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]" mode="toc" priority="10">
<xsl:param name="pathFromMaplist"/>
<xsl:if test="descendant::*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')] [not(@toc = 'no')] [not(@processing-role = 'resource-only')]">
<nav>
<div class="milogo-wrapper"><a href="index.html"><img src="images/SDL_Logo.png"/></a>test</div>
<ul>
<xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')]" mode="toc">
<xsl:with-param name="pathFromMaplist" select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</ul>
</nav>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')] [not(@toc = 'no')] [not(@processing-role = 'resource-only')]" mode="toc">
<xsl:param name="pathFromMaplist"/>
<xsl:variable name="title">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="get-navtitle"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="normalize-space($title)">
<li>
<xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>
<xsl:choose>
<!-- If there is a reference to a DITA or HTML file, and it is not external: -->
<xsl:when test="normalize-space(@href)">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@copy-to and not(contains(@chunk, 'to-content')) and (not(@format) or @format = 'dita' or @format = 'ditamap') ">
<xsl:if test="not(@scope = 'external')">
<xsl:value-of select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-extension">
<xsl:with-param name="filename" select="@copy-to"/>
<xsl:with-param name="extension" select="$OUTEXT"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="not(contains(@copy-to, '#')) and contains(@href, '#')">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('#', substring-after(@href, '#'))"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="not(@scope = 'external') and (not(@format) or @format = 'dita' or @format = 'ditamap')">
<xsl:if test="not(@scope = 'external')">
<xsl:value-of select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-extension">
<xsl:with-param name="filename" select="@href"/>
<xsl:with-param name="extension" select="$OUTEXT"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><!-- If non-DITA, keep the href as-is -->
<xsl:if test="not(@scope = 'external')">
<xsl:value-of select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:if test="@scope = 'external' or not(not(@format) or @format = 'dita' or @format = 'ditamap')">
<xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="$title"/>
</a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$title and $title != ''">
<h2><xsl:value-of select="$title"/></h2>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$title"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<!-- If there are any children that should be in the TOC, process them -->
<xsl:if test="descendant::*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')] [not(@toc = 'no')] [not(@processing-role = 'resource-only')]">
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')]" mode="toc">
<xsl:with-param name="pathFromMaplist" select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</ul>
</xsl:if>
</li>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><!-- if it is an empty topicref -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')]" mode="toc">
<xsl:with-param name="pathFromMaplist" select="$pathFromMaplist"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:output xmlns:dita="http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net" method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" doctype-system="about:legacy-compat" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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this will customize your html output.
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Let’s create new output format for publication
and select exercise-html5 from dropdown

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Click next select language and click create.
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Now select output format and click publish

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Index.html would look like

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And topic page would look like
