### 15.2.3 Specifying DITA output options

To change the file extension for DITA output:

[Setup]

XMLSuffix = .dita

The default file extension is .dita. To specify a different file extension (for example, .xml; not recommended), you must include both of the following settings in your project configuration file:

[Setup]

XMLSuffix = .xml

[HTMLOptions]

FileSuffix = .xml

However, unless you have a more compelling reason than any we have ever heard, use .dita, not .xml, for the output file extension. Many, many places in DITA depend on that extension, and will break if you do not use it; for example, related links would be assigned the wrong @format value, and so would not work correctly in many tools.

The [Setup] setting is used by the Mif2Go plug-in. For this setting to take effect, you might have to close FrameMaker, make the change, save your configuration file, and then re-open FrameMaker.

If you have FrameScript installed on your system, you can use a script to create more “human readable” topic names for DITA output. See:

http://frameautomation.com/2010/03/24/renaming-dita-map-topics/

| 15.2.2 Choosing set-up options for a DITA XML project |  | 15.2.4 Specifying DITA version |