| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic id="dita-otprojecthome" xml:lang="en-us">
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| 4 | <title>DITA Open Toolkit <keyword keyref="release.version"/></title>
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| 5 | <shortdesc>This document describes the DITA Open Toolkit project—what the project is, and how to
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| 6 | use the site.</shortdesc>
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <section>
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| 9 | <title>What is the DITA Open Toolkit?</title>
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| 10 | <p>The DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that
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| 11 | provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. You can download the OT and install it
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| 12 | for free on your computer to get started with topic-based writing and publishing. The
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| 13 | DITA-OT is licensed under the <xref format="html"
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| 14 | href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php" scope="external">CPL 1.0</xref> and
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| 15 | <xref format="html" href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" scope="external"
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| 16 | >Apache 2.0</xref> open source licenses.</p>
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| 17 | <note>While the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is
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| 18 | an independent, open source implementation of the standard.</note>
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| 19 | <p>Key output formats for the toolkit include:</p>
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| 20 | <ul>
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| 21 | <li>XHTML</li>
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| 22 | <li>PDF (formerly known as PDF2)</li>
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| 23 | <li>ODT (Open Document Format)</li>
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| 24 | <li>Eclipse Help</li>
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| 25 | <li>TocJS (XHTML with a JavaScript frameset)</li>
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| 26 | <li>HTML Help</li>
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| 27 | <li>Java Help</li>
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| 28 | <li>Eclipse Content (normalized DITA plus Eclipse project files)</li>
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| 29 | <li>Word RTF (with some limitations)</li>
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| 30 | <li>Docbook</li>
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| 31 | <li>Troff</li>
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| 32 | </ul>
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| 33 | </section>
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| 34 | <section>
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| 35 | <title>Toolkit documentation</title>
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| 36 | <p>There are two primary sources for documentation about the toolkit.</p><p>Stable
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| 37 | documentation about toolkit usage, parameters, and project management can be found on this
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| 38 | page, using the navigation panel on the left.</p>
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| 39 | <p>New information about the latest toolkit builds, plans for the next release, and other
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| 40 | changing information can be found on the DITA-OT landing page at the dita.xml.org site (link
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| 41 | below). That site also contains the release notes for all upcoming and previous
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| 42 | releases.</p>
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| 43 | </section>
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| 44 | </body>
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| 45 | <related-links>
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| 46 | <linklist>
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| 47 | <title>Shortcuts to important information</title>
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| 48 | <link format="html"
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| 49 | href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Stable%20Release/"
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| 50 | scope="external">
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| 51 | <linktext>DITA-OT stable release</linktext>
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| 52 | </link>
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| 53 | <link format="html"
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| 54 | href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Latest%20Test%20Build/"
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| 55 | scope="external">
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| 56 | <linktext>DITA-OT latest development build</linktext>
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| 57 | </link>
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| 58 | </linklist>
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| 59 | </related-links>
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| 60 | </topic>
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