Building your own content using the demo build You can use the demo build to generate output for your own DITA content. When prompted, type the name of a map. You must specify the path for the DITA map. You either can specify a fully qualified file name, for example, C:\DITA-OT1.6.M5\doc\userguide.ditamap, or you can specify a relative path, for example, doc\userguide.ditamap When prompted, type the name of the output directory. When prompted, type the value for the transformation type. Ouput format Value Docbook docbook Eclipse help eclipse HTML help htmlhelp PDF pdf XHTML web XHTML with a JavaScript frame set tocjs When prompted, press Enter to start the transformation.

The DITA-OT generates output for the specified DITA content. It runs the transformation that you specified, and writes the output to the directory that you specified.

Explore invoking the DITA-OT from either Ant or the command-line tool. This enables you to specify a wider array of parameters than those supported by the demo build.

Using Ant or the command-line tool, you can perform the following tasks (and more):

  • Add a custom CSS file to the transformation
  • Generate labels for the sections of task topics
  • Specify that draft comments are included in the output
  • Turn on "Related link" sections in a PDF file