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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Ant</h1>
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- <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">Ant is a Java-based, open-source tool that is provided by the Apache Foundation. It can be used to declare
- a sequence of build actions. It is well suited for both development and document builds. The toolkit ships with a
- copy of Ant.</p>
- <p class="p">DITA-OT uses Ant to manage the XSLT scripts that are used to perform the various transformation; it also uses Ant
- to manage intermediate steps that are written in Java. </p>
- <p class="p">The most important Ant script is the <span class="ph filepath">build.xml</span> file. This script defines and combines common
- pre-processing and output transformation routines; it also defines the DITA-OT extension points.</p>
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- <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../topics/publishing-with-ant.html" title="You can use Ant to invoke DITA Open Toolkit and generate output. You can use the complete set of parameters that the toolkit supports.">Building output using Ant</a></div></div><div class="linklist relinfo reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../topics/migrating-ant-to-dita.html" title="Although DITA Open Toolkit still supports Ant builds, switching to the dita command offers a simpler command interface, sets all required environment variables and allows you to run DITA-OT without setting up anything beforehand.">Migrating Ant builds to use the dita command</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../topics/building-with-ant.html" title="You can build output by using an Ant build script to provide the DITA-OT parameters.">Building output using Ant</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../topics/creating-an-ant-build-script.html" title="Instead of typing the DITA-OT parameters at the command prompt, you might want to create an Ant build script that contains all of the parameters.">Creating an Ant build script</a></li></ul></div><div class="linklist relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../parameters/parameters_intro.html" title="Certain parameters apply to all DITA-OT transformations. Other parameters are common to the HTML-based transformations. Some parameters apply only to specific transformation types. These parameters can be passed as options to the dita command using the --parameter=value syntax or included in build scripts as Ant properties.">DITA-OT parameters</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="http://ant.apache.org/manual" target="_blank">Apache Ant documentation</a></li></ul></div></nav></article></main></body></html>
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