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<title>DITA Open Toolkit Project Home</title>
<shortdesc>This document describes the DITA Open Toolkit project--what
the project is, and how to use the site.</shortdesc>
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<section><title>What is the DITA Open Toolkit?</title><p>The DITA
Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source
tools that provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. You
can download the OT and install it for free on your computer to get
started with topic-based writing and publishing. The DITA-OT is licensed
under the <xref format="html"
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php" scope="external">CPL
1.0</xref> and <xref format="html"
href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" scope="external">Apache
2.0</xref> open source licenses.</p><note>While the DITA Standard
itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is an
independent, open source implementation of the standard</note><p>Key
output formats for the toolkit include:<ul>
<li>XHTML</li>
<li>PDF (formerly known as PDF2)</li>
<li>ODT (Open Document Format)</li>
<li>Eclipse Help</li>
<li>HTML Help</li>
<li>Java Help</li>
<li>Eclipse Content (normalized DITA plus Eclipse project files)</li>
<li>Word RTF (with some limitations)</li>
<li>Docbook</li>
<li>Troff</li>
</ul></p></section>
<section><title>Toolkit documentation</title><p>There are two primary
sources for documentation about the toolkit.</p><p>Stable documentation
about toolkit usage, parameters, and project management can be found
on this page, using the navigation panel on the left.</p><p>New information
about the latest toolkit builds, plans for the next release, and other
changing information can be found on the DITA-OT landing page at the
dita.xml.org site (link below). That site also contains the release
notes for all upcoming and previous releases.</p></section>
<section><title>Shortcuts to important information</title><ul>
<li>Which package is for you? Find an explanation of the minimal,
standard, and "easy install" packages here: <xref format="html"
href="http://dita.xml.org/freelinking/DITA-OT%2520Packages"
scope="external">http://dita.xml.org/freelinking/DITA-OT Packages</xref></li>
<li>Download the latest stable release: <xref format="html"
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Stable%20Release/"
scope="external">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT
Stable Release/</xref></li>
<li>Download the latest test build from the next release: <xref
format="html"
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Latest%20Test%20Build/"
scope="external">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT
Latest Test Build/</xref></li>
<li>Description of parameters to the DITA Open Toolkit: see the Ant
Quick Start Guide in the navigation on the left.</li>
</ul></section>
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<related-links>
<link format="html" href="http://dita.xml.org/wiki/the-dita-open-toolkit"
scope="external"><linktext>Main DITA-OT page at dita.xml.org</linktext>
</link>
<link format="html" href="http://dita.xml.org/node/3101"
scope="external"><linktext>Information on the <keyword keyref="release.version"/> release</linktext>
</link>
<!--link format="html"
href="http://dita.xml.org/freelinking/DITA-OT%2520Release%25201.5.1"
scope="external"><linktext>Release notes for the previous build (1.5.1)</linktext>
</link-->
<link format="html"
href="http://dita.xml.org/freelinking/Plugins%2520for%2520the%2520DITA%2520Open%2520Toolkit"
scope="external"><linktext>Extending the toolkit with plug-ins</linktext>
</link>
</related-links>
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