Processing is producing output files from a set of DITA source files.
DITA Open Toolkit, working with other tools like the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Ant, provides a method to process DITA documents.
The following figures show the annotated console log from processing the garage sample files to XHTML.
Processing begins by initalizing the Toolkit runtime environment and by echoing and validating the input arguments.
This stage, carried out primarily by the Toolkit Java code, creates files in the temp directory where conrefs and related links have been resolved.
During the final stage, carried out mostly by the appropriate XSLT stylesheets, the merged temporary files are transformed into the correct output format. Also, any other files, such as CSS files, are copied to the output directory. Other applications, such as the HTML Help compiler or the FO renderer are invoked.