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| 25 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">Building output using the command-line tool</h1>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">If you are unfamiliar with Ant, you can invoke the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) and
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| 29 | build output from the command-line tool.</p>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Procedure</h2></div><ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand">
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| 32 | <span class="ph cmd">Run the <span class="ph filepath">startcmd</span> file that is applicable for your
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| 33 | operating system.</span>
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| 34 | <div class="itemgroup info">The <span class="ph filepath">startcmd.bat</span> and <span class="ph filepath">startcmd.sh</span>
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| 35 | files are in the directory where you installed the DITA-OT.</div>
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| 37 | <li class="li step stepexpand">
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| 38 | <span class="ph cmd">From the command prompt, issue the following command:</span>
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| 39 | <div class="itemgroup info"><pre class="pre codeblock"> java -jar lib/dost.jar /i:<var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> /transtype:<var class="keyword varname">transformation-type</var> /<var class="keyword varname">parameter-name</var>:<var class="keyword varname">value</var></pre>
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| 40 | where:<ul class="ul">
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| 41 | <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">input-file</var> is the DITA map or DITA file that you want
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| 42 | to process.</li>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">transformation-type</var> is the transformation type.</li>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">parameter-name</var> is the name of an optional
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| 47 | parameter.</li>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <li class="li"><var class="keyword varname">value</var> is an applicable value for the optional
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| 50 | parameter.</li>
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| 54 | <div class="itemgroup stepresult">If you do not specify an output directory,
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| 55 | by default, the DITA-OT writes the output to the
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| 56 | <span class="ph filepath"><var class="keyword varname">installation-directory</var>\out</span>
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| 57 | directory.</div>
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| 61 | <div class="example"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Example</h2></div>
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| 62 | <div class="p">The following command generates XHTML output for the
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| 63 | <span class="ph filepath">sequence.ditamap</span> file and specifies the output is written
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| 64 | to the <span class="ph filepath">test</span>
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| 65 | directory<pre class="pre codeblock">java -jar lib/dost.jar /i:samples/sequence.ditamap /outdir:test /transtype:xhtml</pre>
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| 74 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-javacmd.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) includes a command-line tool designed for users who are unfamiliar with Ant. You can invoke the DITA-OT from the command-line tool and generate output. This method is less robust than Ant.">Publishing DITA content from the command-line tool</a></div>
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| 75 | </div>
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| 76 | <div class="relinfo relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br/>
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| 77 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/command-line-tool.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) provides a command-line tool for users with little knowledge of Ant. The command-line tool supports a subset of the parameters that are available to the Ant builds.">Command-line tool</a></div>
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| 78 | </div>
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| 79 | <div class="relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br/>
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| 80 | <div><a class="link" href="../readme/dita-ot_java_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.">Command-line tool parameters</a></div>
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