Use more than one DITA-OT version

By default, the IXIA CCMS Output Generator uses version 2.5.4 of DITA Open Toolkit, but you can use more than one version.

CCMS Output Generator integrates the 2.5.4 version of DITA-OT. You can use this version or download and use another version, should you need to support transformation scenarios that require different versions of the DITA-OT. For example, you might be using older transformation scenarios that require the 1.8.5 version of DITA-OT while your more recent transformation scenarios use the 3.4.1 version of DITA-OT. In such a case, you would use both versions of the DITA-OT.

  • You can configure a default DITA-OT version by setting the outgen.ot.version property in the outgen-init.properties file. See Configure the version of the DITA-OT used by default.

  • You can also configure a specific version of the DITA-OT to use per conductor file by setting the outgen.ot.version property at the top of the file.

All the targets in the conductor file uses the version of the DITA-OT specified in the outgen.ot.version property.

To use more than one version of the DITA-OT:

  1. Download the new version. See Download another version of DITA-OT.
  2. Configure CCMS Output Generator to use a different version or multiple versions by creating multiple conductor files. See Configure DITA-OT version for transformation scenarios.
    To support a transformation scenario that uses the DITA-OT 3.4.1 version:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project name="conductor-ixia" default="" basedir=".">

	<!-- Set the version of the OT that will be used -->
	<property name="outgen.ot.version" value="3.4.1"/>
    To support transformation scenarios that use both DITA-OT 2.5.4 and 3.4.1 versions, you create the following conductor files:
    • conductor-client-2.5.4.xml contains 2.5.4 transformation scenarios
    • conductor-client-3.4.1.xml contains 3.4.1 transformation scenarios