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What is WinANT

This concept give an overview of WinANT and ANT.

WinANT is a Windows application used in conjunction with ANT and the DITA Open Toolkit to process DITA output.

WinANT is an open-source application you can download from the internet. It is used for the sole purpose of processing DITA documents. WinANT simplifies the publishing process by acting as a Windows interface to ANT.

About ANT

ANT is a Java-based build tool, which is used to automate a series of software commands. In ANT, programmers can write a build file in XML format, and then process the build file. ANT is included in the DITA Open Toolkit because it automates the DITA publishing task.

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