DITA to Word output transform

The DITA Open Toolkit release 1.2 or above provides a DITA to Word transforming function to transform DITA source files to output in Microsoft® Word rtf file. The whole structure of the output file is the same as the structure designed in the ditamap file of the DITA source files.

To avoid losing files in the final output, make sure the ditamap file must contain the completed cross references and all topic, concept, task and reference files which are referenced to.

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Using DITA transforms

Transforming DITA to Word output

You can use an ant script to transform DITA source files to word output. See Transforming DITA to Word with Ant script for more details.

You can also use the Java™ command for transform. See Transforming DITA to Word with Java command for more details.

Supported Parameters

See Ant tasks and script for the supported parameters that you can set with the ant script.

See Building DITA output with Java command line for the supported parameters that you can set with the Java command.

Limitation

There are some limitations of the current DITA to Word transforming tool when processing: Known Limitations