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<title>DITA to Word output transform</title>
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<p>The DITA Open Toolkit release 1.2 or above provides a DITA to Word
transforming function to transform DITA source files to output in <tm
tmclass="special" tmowner="Microsoft Corporation" tmtype="reg"
trademark="Microsoft">Microsoft</tm> Word RTF file. The whole structure
of the output file is the same as the structure designed in the ditamap
file of the DITA source files.</p>
<p>To avoid losing files in the final output, make sure the ditamap
file contains all topics which are cross referenced from within any
individual topics.</p>
<section><title>Transforming DITA to Word output</title><p>You can
use an ant script to transform DITA source files to word output. See <xref
href="ascript.xml#ascript"></xref> for more details.</p><p>You can
also use the <tm tmclass="special" tmowner="Oracle and/or its affiliates"
tmtype="tm" trademark="Java">Java</tm> command for transform. See <xref
href="jcomm.xml#jcomm"></xref> for more details.</p></section>
<section><title>Limitations</title><p>There are several limitations
of the current DITA to Word transforming tool when processing. See <xref
href="DITA-limitations.xml"></xref> for details.</p></section>
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