DITA Open Toolkit User Guide
The DITA Open Toolkit User Guide is designed to provide basic information about the DITA-OT. It is
geared for an audience that needs information about installing, running, and troubleshooting the toolkit. It
contains documentation of the DITA-OT parameters; it also contains release notes and information about what
components have been tested.
DITA Open Toolkit Overview
The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is an open-source implementation of the OASIS DITA specification, which is developed by the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. The DITA-OT is a set of Java-based, open-source tools and Ant scripts that transform DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats, including Eclipse Help, HTML Help, JavaHelp, PDF, and XHTML.
Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
You can install the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The process for installing and setting up the DITA-OT depends on the type of distribution package that you select.
Publishing DITA content
You can use either Ant or the command-line tool to transform DITA content to the various output formats that are supported by the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT).
Extending the DITA Open Toolkit
Plug-ins can be used to extend the functionality and configure the DITA Open Toolkit.
Globalizing DITA content
The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) passes content through to the output format unchanged. The DITA-OT uses the values for the @xml:lang, @translate, and @dir attributes that are set in the source content to provides globalization support.
Error messages and troubleshooting
This section contains information about problems that you might encounter and how to resolve them.
Reference
This section is designed to help users to locate information easily and quickly. It includes documentation for the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) parameters and configuration properties.