What packages are available for the DITA Open Toolkit?

Beginning with DITA-OT version 1.4.2, the binary version of the toolkit is available in three packages (minimal, standard, and full). The latest full release is DITA 1.4.3:

• Minimal package (DITA-OT1.4.3_minimal_bin.zip). This package is primarily for use by vendors that embed the toolkit within their products. It contains all of the core processing code: CSS and XSLT, Ant build scripts, Java code (dost.jar), resource files, DTDs and Schemas. The only external files inside the minimal package are the OASIS DTDs and Schemas, along with the Apache XML Commons package for resolving XML catalogs.
• Standard package (DITA-OT1.4.3_bin.zip). This package contains everything in the minimal package, plus documentation, existing demo code (such as legacy support for the old bookmap), sample ANT scripts, and sample DITA files. This package is appropriate for those who want the core toolkit function, demos, and samples, but already have local installed copies of Ant and other required tools. The standard package of DITA-OT 1.4.3 also includes Saxon 9, under the Mozilla Public License.
• Full Easy Install package, previously called Full package (DITA-OT1.4.3_full_easy_install_bin.zip). This package contains everything in the Standard package, plus common Apache tools used for builds so that you do not need to set them up separately; the only core tool that is missing is Java. This package also contains a batch file to set up a build environment using those tools. In the 1.5 release of the toolkit, the package will be renamed from full_easy_install to easy_install. This package is appropriate for novice users, those testing the toolkit, or those who do not want to maintain local copies of other Apache tools.

In addition to the binary versions of the toolkit, there is a source package available that contains all of the source code used in each of the three packages. The demo files, documentation, and external libraries are not part of the SRC package.

Previous releases

With DITA-OT versions 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4, and 1.4.1, these packages are available:

1. The basic package: DITA-OTversion_bin.zip and DITA-OTversion_bin.tar.gz.
   This package contains all of the processing code for the toolkit, as well as some documentation and demo code. Users of this package will need to install, at a minimum, Java, ANT, and an XSLT processor.
2. The full package: DITA-OTversion_fullpackage_bin.zip and DITA-OTversion_fullpackage_bin.tar.gz. This package includes ANT and XSLT, as well as several other commonly used Apache tools like FOP. A batch file called "startcmd" may be used to set up the local environment for processing. It must be run each time the environment is opened; any number of builds may be run with this, but the environment settings do not persist after the command window is closed. This package also does not come with Java.