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- Command-line tool parameters
- Certain parameters apply to all DITA-OT transformations. Other parameters are common to
- the HTML-based transformations. Finally, some parameters apply only to the specific
- transformation types.
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- command-line toolsyntax
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You must supply the parameters to the command-line tool using the following
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- Command-line tool parameters: All transformations
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- All transformations
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- Certain parameters apply to all transformations that are supported by the DITA Open
- Toolkit.
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- command-line
- toolparametersbasedircleantempdebugditadirditalocaledraftfiltergrammarcacheilogdiroutdirtempdirtranstypevalidate
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- basedir
- The directory where your project's ant build script resides.
- The DITA-OT will look for your .dita files relative to this directory. DITA-OT's
- default build script sets this as an attribute of the project, but you can also define
- it as a project property.
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- cleantemp
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- Command-line tool parameters: All HTML-based transformations
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- All HTML-based transformations
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- Certain parameters apply to all the HTML-based transformation types: Eclipse content, Eclipse help, HTML5, HTML Help, JavaHelp, TocJS, and XHTML.
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- command-line
- toolparametersargs.cssartlblcopycsscsspathcssrootftrgenerateouterhdfhdrindexshowonlytopicinmapoutercontrolusetasklabelsxhtmlclassxsl
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- You must specify an absolute path as the value for the following parameters: