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.
- Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit 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 OSX, 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.