DITA Open Toolkit

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DITA Open Toolkit
Initial release3 March 2005;20 years ago (2005-03-03)
Stable release
4.3.1 / 23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)
Repository github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/
Written in Java, XSLT, Ant
License Apache License 2.0
Website www.dita-ot.org

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]

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.

References

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