15.2.3 Specifying DITA output options
To change the file extension for DITA output (not recommended):
The default file extension is .dita. Unless you have a compelling reason, use .dita, not .xml, for the output file extension. Many places in DITA depend on that extension, and will break if you do not use it; for example, related links would be assigned the wrong @format value, and so would not work correctly in many tools.
The [Setup] setting is used by the Mif2Go plug-in. For this setting to take effect, you might have to close FrameMaker, make the change, save your configuration file, and then re-open FrameMaker.
If you have FrameScript installed on your system, you can use a script to create more “human readable” topic names for DITA output. See:
http://frameautomation.com/2010/03/24/renaming-dita-map-topics/
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