Best Practice for Including "Other" files (ZIP, spreadsheets, etc.) in Publication Output?

I'm looking for the best practice for how to include "Other" files (particularly ZIP archives and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets) in our publication output. I can store these files in the repository in an "Other" type folder and then link to them via a DITA XREF element. However, that alone does not actually include the referenced file in the output (at least, without some modifications to the DITA-OT or other SDL publishing engine).

I can 'embed' the referenced file using a DITA image element (and then wrap that in a draft-comment to 'hide' it), but that seems like a sub-optimal workaround. Sure there is a standard way to support including these files in the output so that an end-user could click a link to save/open the referenced file, but I have yet to locate any documentation on the feature (possibly in part because a non-descriptive name such as "other" doesn't really lend itself to searching).

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

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