What_DITA_is_NOT.dita

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 <title>What DITA is NOT</title>
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  <p>DITA is not a tool like Dreamweaver. You author DITA on an XML editor. While you can use any
   text editor to author DITA content, having an editor that understands the DITA standard means you
   can let it spot your typos and other mistakes. Some of the DITA-aware XML editors, like oXygen
   and Arbortext, also have the capability of transforming the DITA content into deliverables like
   PDF, WebHelp, JavaHelp, Eclipse Content and epub. The other important tool for using DITA is the
   DITA Open Toolkit which transforms DITA content into nearly a dozen different output types.</p>
  <p>Web sites are not written in DITA. While HTML browsers can "read" DITA files, they cannot
   display it in a usable form unless the file also includes a link to a CSS style sheet. So while
   the master content is stored in DITA, it is almost never published that way. It is transformed
   into an HTML-type output format and styled with a CSS style sheet to make it look the way the
   customer sees it. </p>
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