How do xrefs to glossentry topics get type="glossentry"?

[reifsnid]

Hi, I don't have an issue, but I am curious how xrefs that reference a glossentry topic, for example:

Topic A
<xref href="GlossentryTopic.dita">link</xref>

GlossentryTopic.dita

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glossentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary Entry//EN" "glossaryentry.dtd">
<glossentry id="GlossentryTopic">
...
</glossentry>

end up with type="glossentry", for example:

<xref href="GlossentryTopicWithGlossentryLink.dita" class="- topic/xref " type="glossentry"><?ditaot usertext?>link</xref>

in the temp DITA file?

I haven't been able to trace this back to the XSLT that does this.

I ask because I'm using a custom plugin that is acts upon xrefs with type="glossentry" and the source DITA file doesn't specify a type for the xref.

Thank you!

Daniel

[raducoravu]

The DITA OT has some Java-implemented pre-processing stage steps. Some of these steps call XSLT code, I think that maybe that type attribute computation based on the target might be done in "DITA-OT/plugins/org.dita.base/xsl/preprocess/topicpullImpl.xsl"

[reifsnid]

Thanks for your reply @raducoravu! That makes perfect sense. I'm also ashamed to admit that I forgot to check the preprocessing module XSLT. 😅