Installing the DITA Open Toolkit

The DITA Open Toolkit is downloaded from the SourceForge web site. For this installation, you will access the web sites for each of the required installation items, including Ant, Java Development Toolkit, JavaHelp, Apache FOP, SAXON XSLT Processor, and Microsoft HTML Help.

  1. Enter the URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot
  2. On the SourceForge.net page, click Download DITA Open Toolkit
  3. Select and download the latest version of DITA OT. The table with all packages in the release displays.
  4. Select the appropriate package. There are three distribution types for DITA OT packages. Full package distribution contains the Toolkit and most of the basic tools required for doing Toolkit transformation. Small package distribution contains only DITA Toolkit. Source distribution contains the source and executable code for the Toolkit (it also contains the source code for this document). The download will start automatically.
  5. Click Save to download the package file and unzip it to your C:\ directory as ditaot.
  6. Set the CLASSPATH environment variable for dost.jar