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       = "á"
 macro.Aring.DITAXML        = "Å"
 macro.aring.DITAXML        = "å"
 macro.Auml.DITAXML         = "Ä"
 macro.br.DITAXML           = " "
 macro.BR.DITAXML           = " "
 macro.copyright.DITAXML    = "©"
 macro.eacute.DITAXML       = "é"
 macro.hr.DITAXML           = " "
 macro.iacute.DITAXML       = "í"
 macro.oslash.DITAXML       = "ø"
 macro.ouml.DITAXML         = "ö"
 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 = 2020
 dita.metadata.default.copyrholder = Qt Project
 dita.metadata.default.audience = programmer

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