Installing the minimal or standard package on Windows Package File name Minimal DITA-OT_minimal_bin.zip Standard DITA-OT_standard_bin.zip For example, C:\pkg\DITA-OT. Verify that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set. set JAVA_HOME=<JRE_dir> Verify that the ANT_HOME environment variable is set. set ANT_HOME=<Ant_dir> Verify that the PATH environment variable includes the Java and Ant executable files. set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%PATH% Set the DITA_HOME environment variable to point to the DITA-OT installation directory. set DITA_HOME=<DITA-OT_dir> Set up the CLASSPATH environment variable. set CLASSPATH=%DITA_HOME%\lib\dost.jar;%CLASSPATH% set CLASSPATH=%DITA_HOME%\lib;%CLASSPATH% set CLASSPATH=%DITA_HOME%\lib\resolver.jar;%CLASSPATH% set CLASSPATH=%DITA_HOME%\lib\commons-codec-.jar;%CLASSPATH% If you use Ant, version 1.8 or later, set up the CLASSPATH environment variable to include Apache Xerces. set CLASSPATH=<xerces_dir>\xercesImpl.jar;<xerces_dir>\xml-apis.jar;%CLASSPATH% Set up the XSLT processor: Processor Action Saxon

Set up the CLASSPATH environment variable to include the Saxon JAR files, for example:set CLASSPATH=<saxon_dir>\saxon9.jar;<saxon_dir>\saxon9-dom.jar;%CLASSPATH%

Set up the ANT_OPTS environment variable, for example: set ANT_OPTS=%ANT_OPTS% -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl

 Xalan Set up the CLASSPATH environment variable to include the Xalan JAR files, for example: set CLASSPATH=<xalan_dir>\xalan.jar;%CLASSPATH% For index processing, set up ICU for Java. set CLASSPATH=<icu4j_dir>\icu4j.jar;%CLASSPATH% For JavaHelp, set the JHHOME environment variable. set JHHOME=<javahelp_dir> For HTML Help, add the installation directory for the HTML Help Workshop to the local.properties file as the property. hhc.dir=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\HTML Help Workshop For PDF output, set up the XSL-FO processor: Processor Action FOP

Add the FOP installation directory to the local.properties file as the property, for example:fop.home=C:\\Program Files\\fop

 RenderX Add the RenderX installation directory to the local.properties file as the property, for example:xep.dir=C:\\Program Files\\xep Antenna House Add the AH Formatter installation directory to the local.properties file as the property, for example:axf.path=C:\\Program Files\\AHFormatterV6 Test the DITA-OT installation by transforming the sample files. The samples\ant_sample directory contains Ant scripts designed to build various output formats. C:\DITA-OT>ant -f samples\ant_sample\sample_all.xml The generated output is written to the DITA-dir\out\samples directory. The following output formats are generated:
  • Docbook
  • Eclipse help
  • HTML Help
  • ODT
  • JavaHelp
  • PDF
  • TocJS
  • TROFF
  • XHTML