Verifying the installation on Windows

  1. From the toolbar, click Start > Run.
  2. In the Open field, type cmd.
  3. Change the command prompt according to the following table.
    If this prompt displays, type the following command
    D:\
    C:
    H:\
    C:
    C:\My Documents\...
    cd \
  4. At the prompt, type cd DITA-OT1.5.3 The command prompt changes to C:\DITA-OT1.5.3
  5. Type ant -f build_demo.xml all and press Enter to process the DITA files in the demo, doc, docbook, and samples directories. This procedure also verifies the Toolkit installation. The testing process completes in 3-10 minutes depending on the speed of your machine. When testing completes, the confirmation message BUILD SUCCESSFUL displays.
Be sure the directories and files in your DITA-OT1.5.3 are as described in Directories and files in the DITA-OT1.5.3 root directory.