DITA Open Toolkit explained

DITA Open Toolkit
Latest Release Version:	4.2.3
Programming Language:	Java, XSLT, Ant
License:	Apache License 2.0

DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is an open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).^[1]

The toolkit's extensible plug-in mechanism allows users to add their own transformations and customize the default output, which includes:^[2]

• Eclipse Help
• HTML5
• Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
• Markdown
• PDF, through XSL-FO
• troff
• XHTML and XHTML with a JavaScript frameset

Originally developed by IBM and released to open source in 2005,^[3] the distribution packages contain Ant, Apache FOP, Java, Saxon, and Xerces.

Many DITA authoring tools and DITA CMSs integrate the DITA-OT, or parts of it, into their publishing workflows.^[4]

Standalone tools have also been developed to run the DITA-OT via a graphical user interface instead of the command line.

External links

• “DITA Open Toolkit documentation” From 1.5.2 to current version
• GitHub DITA-OT code repository
• DITA XML.org “Information resource for the DITA OASIS Standard”
• “Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture” Don Day, Michael Priestley, David Schell

Notes and References

1. Book: Linton, Jen . Bruski, Kylene. Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. 2006. Comtech Services. 0-9778634-0-9. 225.
2. Web site: DITA-OT documentation. 31 May 2017.
3. Web site: DITA-OT 1.0 release. 10 July 2012.
4. Web site: DITA-OT. 13 July 2019.