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  <title>DITA Open Toolkit <keyword keyref="release"/></title>
  <shortdesc><term>DITA Open Toolkit</term>, or <term>DITA-OT</term> for short, is a set of Java-based, open-source
    tools that provide processing for content authored in the <term>Darwin Information Typing
    Architecture</term>.</shortdesc>
  <prolog>
    <metadata>
      <keywords>
        <indexterm>OASIS</indexterm>
      </keywords>
    </metadata>
  </prolog>
  <body>

    <note>While the DITA standard is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit project is governed separately.
      DITA-OT is an independent, open-source implementation of the
      <xref keyref="dita13-spec">DITA standard</xref>.</note>

    <section>
      <title>DITA-OT documentation</title>
      <p>The DITA Open Toolkit documentation provides information about installing, running, configuring and extending
        the toolkit.</p>
      <ul outputclass="list-group mb-5">
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">See the
          <xref keyref="release-notes" outputclass="stretched-link"/> for information on the changes in the current
          release.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="installing-client" outputclass="stretched-link"/> shows how to install the toolkit and run a
          build to verify the installation.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="building-output" outputclass="stretched-link"/> explains the methods that can be used to
          transform DITA content to other formats, including the <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command, Ant, and the Java API,
          along with information on publishing DITA content from a containerized environment.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="input-formats" outputclass="stretched-link"/> provides information on supported input formats,
          including standard DITA XML, Markdown and the Lightweight DITA formats (XDITA, MDITA and HDITA).</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="output-formats" outputclass="stretched-link">Output formats</xref> describes the core
          transformations that convert DITA to other formats.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="parameters" outputclass="stretched-link"/> explains how to adjust the behavior of DITA Open
          Toolkit via <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command arguments and options, DITA-OT parameter settings, and
          configuration properties.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="html-customization" outputclass="stretched-link"/> shows how to <ph
            conkeyref="html-customization/shortdesc-ph"/>.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="pdf-customization" outputclass="stretched-link"/> explains how to <ph
            conkeyref="pdf-customization/shortdesc-ph"/>.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="adding-plugins" outputclass="stretched-link"/> explains how to install, remove and discover new
          plug-ins.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="custom-plugins" outputclass="stretched-link"/> provides information on extending DITA-OT with
          plug-ins of your own.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="troubleshooting-overview" outputclass="stretched-link"/> contains information about resolving
          problems that you might encounter.</li>
        <li outputclass="list-group-item list-group-item-action">
          <xref keyref="reference" outputclass="stretched-link"/> topics provide additional information about the
          <xref keyref="architecture"/>,
          <xref keyref="dita-spec-support"/>, a
          <xref keyref="glossary"/> and other
          <xref keyref="dita-and-dita-ot-resources"/>.</li>
      </ul>
    </section>
  </body>
</topic>