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| 31 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">Ant</h1>
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| 35 | <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">Ant is a Java-based, open-source tool that is provided by the Apache Foundation. It can
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| 36 | be used to declare a sequence of build actions. It is well suited for both development and
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| 37 | document builds. The full-easy-install version of the toolkit ships with a copy of
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| 38 | Ant.</p>
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| 40 | <p class="p">The DITA-OT uses Ant to manage the XSLT scripts that are used to perform the various
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| 41 | transformation; it also uses Ant to manage intermediate steps that are written in Java. </p>
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| 43 | <p class="p">The most important Ant script is the <span class="ph filepath">build.xml</span> file. This script defines
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| 44 | and combines common pre-processing and output transformation routines; it also defines the
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| 45 | DITA-OT extension points.</p>
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| 51 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-ant.html" title="You can use Ant to invoke the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) and generate output. This is the most robust method of transforming DITA content; you can use the complete set of parameters that are supported by the toolkit.">Publishing DITA content from Ant</a></div>
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| 53 | <div class="relinfo reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br/>
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| 54 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-antuse.html" title="You can build output by running the ant command and specifying the DITA-OT parameters at the command prompt. You also can use an Ant build script to provide the DITA-OT parameters">Building output using Ant</a></div>
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| 55 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/creating-an-ant-build-script.html" title="Instead of typing the DITA-OT parameters at the command prompt, you might want to create an Ant build script that contains all of the parameters.">Creating an Ant build script</a></div>
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| 56 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-ant.html" title="You can use Ant to invoke the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) and generate output. This is the most robust method of transforming DITA content; you can use the complete set of parameters that are supported by the toolkit.">Publishing DITA content from Ant</a></div>
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| 57 | </div>
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| 58 | <div class="relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br/>
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| 59 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/dita-ot_ant_properties.html" title="Certain parameters apply to all DITA-OT transformations. Other parameters are common to the HTML-based transformations. Finally, some parameters apply only to the specific transformation types.">Ant parameters</a></div>
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