Calling the DITA Open Toolkit from the IXIASOFT Output Generator

The IXIASOFT Output Generator calls the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) in the same way as the DITA-OT startcmd command and passes a build script.

The IXIASOFT Output Generator calls the DITA-OT by performing the following steps:
  1. It creates the build.xml file required to build a DITA-OT output. A typical build.xml file created by the IXIASOFT Output Generator for a PDF transformation might look as follows:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir="." default="outgen.build" name="outgen_build">
  <property environment="env"/>
  <property location="C:\ixiasoft\OutputGenerators\Prod\data\DITA-OT1.8.5" 
            name="dita.dir"/>
  <target description="Output Generator auto-generated build file" 
          name="outgen.build">
     <ant antfile="${dita.dir}/build.xml">
       <property 
        location="C:\ixiasoft\OG\Prod\temp\Dita2Pdf.mtest.42.1417543950109\temp" 
        name="dita.temp.dir"/>
       <property 
        location="C:\ixiasoft\OG\Prod\temp\Dita2Pdf.mtest.42.1417543950109\content↩
        \authoring\mte1417452438148.ditamap" 
        name="args.input"/>
       <property 
        location="C:\ixiasoft\OG\Prod\temp\Dita2Pdf.mtest.42.1417543950109\out" 
        name="output.dir"/>
       <property name="pdf.formatter" value="xep"/>
       <property name="xep.dir" value="C:\Program Files\RenderX\XEP"/>
       <property name="clean.temp" value="no"/>
       <property name="retain.topic.fo" value="yes"/>
       <property name="transtype" value="pdf2"/>
       <property name="args.fo.include.rellinks" value="none"/>
       <property name="args.draft" value="no"/>
     </ant>
  </target>
</project>
  2. The IXIASOFT Output Generator then forks a shell environment that is equivalent to the DITA-OT startcmd command and runs the ant -f build.xml command in it, using the build script created in step 1.