DITA Open Toolkit, version 1.8.M2

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • 1.1: Installing the full-easy-install package
  • 1.2: Running the demo build
  • 1.3: Building your own content using the demo build
• Chapter 2: User Guide
  • 2.1: Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit
    • 2.1.1: Release notes
    • 2.1.2: DITA 1.2 Specification Support
    • 2.1.3: Tested platforms and tools
  • 2.2: Installing the DITA-OT
    • 2.2.1: Distribution packages
    • 2.2.2: Prerequisite software
    • 2.2.3: Installing the full-easy-install package
    • 2.2.4: Installing the minimal or standard package on Linux or Mac OSX
    • 2.2.5: Installing the minimal or standard package on Windows
  • 2.3: Publishing DITA content
    • 2.3.1: DITA-OT transformations
      • 2.3.1.1: DITA to Docbook
      • 2.3.1.2: DITA to Eclipse Content
      • 2.3.1.3: DITA to Eclipse help
      • 2.3.1.4: DITA to HTML Help (CHM)
      • 2.3.1.5: DITA to legacy PDF
      • 2.3.1.6: DITA to ODT
      • 2.3.1.7: DITA to PDF (PDF2)
      • 2.3.1.8: DITA to RTF
      • 2.3.1.9: DITA to TocJS
      • 2.3.1.10: DITA to Troff
      • 2.3.1.11: DITA to XHTML
    • 2.3.2: Publishing DITA content from Ant
      • 2.3.2.1: Ant
      • 2.3.2.2: Building output using Ant
      • 2.3.2.3: Creating an Ant build script
    • 2.3.3: Publishing DITA content from the command-line tool
      • 2.3.3.1: Command-line tool
      • 2.3.3.2: Building output using the command-line tool
  • 2.4: Globalizing DITA content
    • 2.4.1: Globalization support offered by the DITA-OT
    • 2.4.2: Supported languages: HTML-based transformations
    • 2.4.3: Supported languages: PDF transformations
  • 2.5: Error messages and troubleshooting
    • 2.5.1: Error messages
    • 2.5.2: Other error messages
    • 2.5.3: Log files
    • 2.5.4: Accessing help from the command-line tool
    • 2.5.5: Determing the version of the DITA Open Toolkit
    • 2.5.6: Enabling debug mode
    • 2.5.7: Increasing Java memory allocation
  • 2.6: Reference
    • 2.6.1: Ant parameters
      • 2.6.1.1: All transformations
      • 2.6.1.2: All HTML-based transformations
      • 2.6.1.3: Eclipse content
      • 2.6.1.4: Eclipse help
      • 2.6.1.5: HTML Help
      • 2.6.1.6: JavaHelp
      • 2.6.1.7: Legacy PDF
      • 2.6.1.8: ODT
      • 2.6.1.9: Other
      • 2.6.1.10: PDF
      • 2.6.1.11: XHTML
    • 2.6.2: Command-line tool parameters
      • 2.6.2.1: All transformations
      • 2.6.2.2: All HTML-based transformations
      • 2.6.2.3: Eclipse content
      • 2.6.2.4: Eclipse help
      • 2.6.2.5: HTML help
      • 2.6.2.6: JavaHelp
      • 2.6.2.7: ODT
      • 2.6.2.8: PDF transformation
      • 2.6.2.9: XHTML
    • 2.6.3: lib/configuration.properties file
• Chapter 3: Developer Reference
  • 3.1: DITA Open Toolkit Architecture
    • 3.1.1: Processing modules in the DITA-OT
    • 3.1.2: Processing order within the DITA-OT
    • 3.1.3: DITA-OT pre-processing architecture
      • 3.1.3.1: Generate lists (gen-list)
      • 3.1.3.2: Debug and filter (debug-filter)
      • 3.1.3.3: Copy related files (copy-files)
      • 3.1.3.4: Conref push (conrefpush)
      • 3.1.3.5: Conref (conref)
      • 3.1.3.6: Move metadata (move-meta-entries)
      • 3.1.3.7: Resolve keyref (keyref)
      • 3.1.3.8: Resolve code references (codref)
      • 3.1.3.9: Resolve map references (mapref)
      • 3.1.3.10: Pull content into maps (mappull)
      • 3.1.3.11: Chunk topics (chunk)
      • 3.1.3.12: Map based linking (maplink and move-links)
      • 3.1.3.13: Pull content into topics (topicpull)
      • 3.1.3.14: Flagging in the toolkit
        • 3.1.3.14.1: XHTML migration for flagging updates in DITA-OT 1.7
    • 3.1.4: Generating XHTML with navigation
      • 3.1.4.1: Default XHTML output
      • 3.1.4.2: Eclipse help output (transform type "eclipsehelp")
      • 3.1.4.3: TocJS output path
      • 3.1.4.4: Compiled Help (CHM) output
      • 3.1.4.5: Javahelp output
    • 3.1.5: PDF output pipeline
    • 3.1.6: ODT Transform type (Open Document Format)
  • 3.2: Extending the DITA Open Toolkit
    • 3.2.1: Installing plug-ins
    • 3.2.2: Removing plug-ins
    • 3.2.3: Rebuilding the DITA-OT documentation
  • 3.3: Configuring the DITA Open Toolkit
    • 3.3.1: integrator.properties file
    • 3.3.2: lib/org.dita.dost.platform/plugin.properties file
  • 3.4: Creating DITA-OT plug-ins
    • 3.4.1: Plug-in configuration file
    • 3.4.2: Extending the XML Catalog
    • 3.4.3: Adding new targets to the Ant build process
    • 3.4.4: Adding Ant targets to the pre-process pipeline
    • 3.4.5: Integrating a new transform type
    • 3.4.6: Override styles with XSLT
    • 3.4.7: Modifying or adding generated text
    • 3.4.8: Passing parameters to existing XSLT steps
    • 3.4.9: Adding Java libraries to the classpath
    • 3.4.10: Adding diagnostic messages
    • 3.4.11: Managing plug-in dependencies
    • 3.4.12: Version and support information
    • 3.4.13: Creating a new plug-in extension point
    • 3.4.14: Example plugin.xml file
  • 3.5: Customizing PDF output
  • 3.6: Internal Ant properties
  • 3.7: Implementation dependent features
  • 3.8: Extended functionality
  • 3.9: Topic merge
  • 3.10: Creating Eclipse help from within Eclipse
• Appendix A: DITA-OT release history
  • A.1 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.8
  • A.2 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.7
  • A.3 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.6
  • A.4 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.5.4
  • A.5 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.5.3
  • A.6 DITA Open Toolkit Release 1.5.2
  • A.7 DITA OT Release 1.5.1
  • A.8 DITA OT release 1.5
  • A.9 DITA OT release 1.4.3
  • A.10 DITA OT release 1.4.2.1
  • A.11 DITA OT release 1.4.2
  • A.12 DITA OT release 1.4.1
  • A.13 DITA OT release 1.4
  • A.14 DITA OT release 1.3.1
  • A.15 DITA OT release 1.3
  • A.16 DITA OT release 1.2.2
  • A.17 DITA OT release 1.2.1
  • A.18 DITA OT release 1.2
  • A.19 DITA OT release 1.1.2.1
  • A.20 DITA OT release 1.1.2
  • A.21 DITA OT release 1.1.1
  • A.22 DITA OT release 1.1
  • A.23 DITA OT release 1.0.2
  • A.24 DITA OT release 1.0.1
  • A.25 DITA OT release 1.0
  • A.26 DITA history on developerWorks (pre-Open Source)
• Appendix B: Project Management Guidelines
  • B.1 Goals and objectives
  • B.2 Development process
    • Project roles
    • Release management
    • Feature requests and defect reports
  • B.3 How to participate in the DITA Open Toolkit
    • Bug fix guidelines
    • Contribution policy
    • Contribution Questionnaire Form
• Appendix C: developerWorks articles
  • C.1 Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
  • C.2 Specializing topic types in DITA
  • C.3 Specializing domains in DITA
  • C.4 How to define a formal information architecture with DITA map domains