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Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010
Specifies the definition of a document converter.
<DocumentConverter
  Id="Text"
  Name="Text"
  App="Text"
  From="Text"
  To="Text"
  ConverterUIPage="Text"
  ConverterSpecificSettingsUI="Text"
  ConverterSettingsForContentType="Text"
/>
Attributes
Attribute  | 
Description  | 
|---|---|
Id  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the globally unique identifier (GUID) for this document converter.  | 
Name  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the document converter name.  | 
App  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the short name of the document converter executable file.  | 
From  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the file name extension of the original file to be passed to the document converter. Do not start the file extension with a period.  | 
To  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the file name extension of the converted copy that the document converter produces. Do not start the file name extension with a period.  | 
ConverterUIPage  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the file name of the .aspx page to display to users to specify conversion options for the selected document.  | 
ConverterSpecificSettingsUI  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the file name of an .ascx control to host on an existing converter configuration page. Use the control to add configuration options to the existing page.  | 
ConverterSettingsForContentType  | 
Optional Text. Specifies the file name of the .aspx page to display to enable administrators to set configuration settings for this converter, per site content type.  | 
Child Elements
None.  | 
Parent Elements
Example
The following example is the document converter definition file for a custom document converter that converts files of File Type A format to File Type B format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <DocumentConverter ID="{3f8ae156-93dc-46de-bcb3-0a89416a20b3}"
    Name="FileTypeA to FileTypeB"
    App="FTA2FTB.exe"
    From="fta"
    To="ftb"
    ConverterUIPage="FTA2FTB.aspx"
    ConverterSpecificSettingsUI="FTA2FTBConfig.aspx"
    ConverterSettingsForContentType="FTA2FTBConfig.ascx"
  />
</Elements>