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| 28 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">DITA Open Toolkit <span class="keyword">1.8.5</span></h1>
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| 29 |
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <div class="body"><p class="shortdesc">This document describes the DITA Open Toolkit project—what the project is, and how to
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| 32 | use the site.</p>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">What is the DITA Open Toolkit?</h2>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <p class="p">The DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that
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| 37 | provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. You can download the OT and install it
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| 38 | for free on your computer to get started with topic-based writing and publishing. The
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| 39 | DITA-OT is licensed under the <a class="xref" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php" target="_blank">CPL 1.0</a> and
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| 40 | <a class="xref" href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="_blank">Apache 2.0</a> open source licenses.</p>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <div class="note note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> While the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is
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| 43 | an independent, open source implementation of the standard.</div>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <p class="p">Key output formats for the toolkit include:</p>
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| 48 | <li class="li">XHTML</li>
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| 50 | <li class="li">PDF (formerly known as PDF2)</li>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <li class="li">ODT (Open Document Format)</li>
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| 54 | <li class="li">Eclipse Help</li>
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| 56 | <li class="li">TocJS (XHTML with a JavaScript frameset)</li>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <li class="li">HTML Help</li>
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| 60 | <li class="li">Java Help</li>
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| 62 | <li class="li">Eclipse Content (normalized DITA plus Eclipse project files)</li>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <li class="li">Word RTF (with some limitations)</li>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <li class="li">Docbook</li>
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| 68 | <li class="li">Troff</li>
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| 70 | </ul>
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| 72 | </div>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Toolkit documentation</h2>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <p class="p">There are two primary sources for documentation about the toolkit.</p>
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| 77 | <p class="p">Stable
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| 78 | documentation about toolkit usage, parameters, and project management can be found on this
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| 79 | page, using the navigation panel on the left.</p>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <p class="p">New information about the latest toolkit builds, plans for the next release, and other
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| 82 | changing information can be found on the DITA-OT landing page at the dita.xml.org site (link
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| 83 | below). That site also contains the release notes for all upcoming and previous
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| 84 | releases.</p>
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| 88 | </div>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <div class="related-links"><div class="relinfo relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br/>
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| 91 | <div><a class="link" href="readme/distribution_packages.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit is distributed in three packages: minimal, standard, and full-easy-install. The source code is available both as a Git repository and a ZIP file.">Distribution packages</a></div>
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| 92 | </div>
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| 93 | <div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br/>
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| 94 | <div><a class="link" href="http://dita.xml.org/wiki/the-dita-open-toolkit" target="_blank">Main DITA-OT page at dita.xml.org</a></div>
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| 95 | <div><a class="link" href="http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=132728" target="_blank">Project News for DITA Open Toolkit</a></div>
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| 98 | <div class="linklist linklist"><strong>Shortcuts to important information</strong><br/>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <div><a class="link" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Stable%20Release/" target="_blank">DITA-OT stable release</a></div>
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| 101 | <div><a class="link" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Latest%20Test%20Build/" target="_blank">DITA-OT latest development build</a></div></div>
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