- Qt 5.5
- QDoc Manual
- Generating DITA XML Output
- Qt 5.5.1 Reference Documentation

minimum.qdocconf QA Pages

# Generating DITA XML Output

QDoc can generate DITA XML output.

In your configuration file, set your `outputformats` variable to `DITAXML`, and send the output to an appropriate directory:

    outputdir                  = $QTDIR/doc/ditaxml
    outputformats              = DITAXML

And include these macros in your configuration file to prevent QDoc from doing some escaping that doesn't validate in XML:

    macro.aacute.DITAXML       = "&aacute;"
    macro.Aring.DITAXML        = "&Aring;"
    macro.aring.DITAXML        = "&aring;"
    macro.Auml.DITAXML         = "&Auml;"
    macro.br.DITAXML           = " "
    macro.BR.DITAXML           = " "
    macro.copyright.DITAXML    = "&copy;"
    macro.eacute.DITAXML       = "&eacute;"
    macro.hr.DITAXML           = " "
    macro.iacute.DITAXML       = "&iacute;"
    macro.oslash.DITAXML       = "&oslash;"
    macro.ouml.DITAXML         = "&ouml;"
    macro.raisedaster.DITAXML  = "<sup>*</sup>"
    macro.rarrow.DITAXML       = "&rarr;"
    macro.reg.DITAXML          = "<sup>&reg;</sup>"
    macro.uuml.DITAXML         = "&uuml;"
    macro.mdash.DITAXML        = "&mdash;"
    macro.emptyspan.DITAXML    = " "

You can also set default values for some of the tags in the DITA `<prolog>` and `<metadata>` elements:

    dita.metadata.default.author      = Qt Development Frameworks
    dita.metadata.default.permissions = all
    dita.metadata.default.publisher   = Qt Project
    dita.metadata.default.copyryear = 2015
    dita.metadata.default.copyrholder = Qt Project
    dita.metadata.default.audience = programmer

See the \meta command for more details on DITA metadata.