Use an External DITA Open Toolkit in Oxygen XML Author
Oxygen XML Author comes bundled with a DITA Open Toolkit, located in the
DITA_OT_DIR directory. Starting with
Oxygen XML Author version 17, if you want to use an external DITA OT for all
transformations and validations, you can open the
Preferences dialog box and go to the DITA
page, where you can specify the DITA OT to be used. Otherwise, to use an external
DITA Open Toolkit, follow these steps:
- Edit your transformation scenarios and in the Parameters tab change the value for the dita.dir parameter to point to the new directory.
- To make changes in the libraries that come with the DITA Open Toolkit and are used by the Ant process, go to the Advanced tab, click the Libraries button and uncheck Allow Oxygen to add high priority libraries to classpath.
- If there are also changes in the DTDs and you want to use the new versions for content
completion and validation, go to the Oxygen XML Author preferences in the
Document Type Association page, edit the
DITA and DITA Map document types and
modify the catalog entry in the Catalogs tab to point to the custom
catalog file
catalog-dita.xml.