Generating output with your DITA files

After you have installed the DITA Open Toolkit and run the samples, you might want to use the Toolkit with your own DITA files. You either can use an Ant file or the Java command-line interface to run the transformations.

• Generating output using Ant
  You can use Ant scripts to call the XSLT scripts and provide parameters for the transformations.
• Generating output using the Java command-line interface
  If you are not familiar with Ant, you can use the command line to perform the transformations. The DITA Open Toolkit creates a properties file (property.temp) that contains the information that you provided at the command line and then passes the property file to Ant. The properties file is saved in the args.logdir directory.