# DITA to Eclipse Content

The "eclipsecontent" transform type was originally designed to work with an Eclipse plug-in for dynamically rendering DITA content. It returns Eclipse control files along with normalized DITA files (with preprocessing complete and default attributes included).

The normalized DITA files, which use an extension of ".xml", may also be used by other scripts that work with DITA; they have all pre-processing resolved, including modifications such as:

- Map-based links are added to the topics
- Link text is resolved (based on empty elements like `<xref href="othertopic.dita"/>`)
- DTD or Schema reference is removed
- Class attributes, which are defaulted in the DTD / Schema, are made explicit in the topics
- Map attributes that cascade are made explicit on child elements

Parent topic: Available DITA-OT Transforms