# Introduction to the DITA Open Toolkit and Ant

Understanding the role of DITA Open Toolkit and Ant for technical writers.

This chapter further describes the role of DITA Open Toolkit, Ant, and when DITA-OT is a logical choice for your documentation team.

- Overview
  Introducing the most important authoring tool since FrameMaker.
- About DITA-OT Toolkit Roles
  Descriptions of the following user roles for the toolkit: CSS Customizers, Build Scripters, and potentially End Users of third-party authoring tools.
- What is Ant?
  Learning about the blurred line between code and documentation and why technical writers need to learn Ant.
- What is DITA-OT?
  What is the DITA Open Toolkit, anyway?
- When Should I Use DITA-OT?
  Determining when DITA OT makes sense for your team.