DITA Open Toolkit

Getting Started with the DITA Open Toolkit

The Getting Started Guide is designed to provide a guided exploration of the DITA Open Toolkit. It is geared for an audience that has little or no knowledge of build scripts or DITA-OT parameters. It walks the novice user through installing the full-easy-install version of the toolkit and running a prompted build.

  1. Installing the full-easy-install package
    For the simplest installation experience, install the full-easy-install package. This package can be installed on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. It contains everything that you need to run the DITA-OT except for Java.
  2. Running the demo build
    After you install the full-easy-install package, run the demo build to see the type of output that is produced by the DITA Open Toolkit.
  3. Building your own content using the demo build
    You can use the demo build to generate output for your own DITA content.