="link ulchildlink"><span class="ulchildlinktext"><a href="../dev_ref/processing-structure.html">DITA-OT processing structure</a></span><br />
The DITA-OT implements a multi-stage, map-driven architecture to process DITA content.
  Each stage in the process examines some or all of the content; some stages result in temporary
  files that are used by later steps, while others stages result in updated copies of the DITA
  content. Most of the processing takes place in a temporary working directory; the source