X-Pubs Conference, London, June 23, 2008 — Suite Solutions today announced that it will accept the leadership role in supporting PDF publishing functionality provided by the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT). The FO plug-in, initially developed and supported by Idiom, currently facilitates PDF generation of DITA XML documents using the XSL-FO formatting standard.

Affordable New SaaS Environment for XML Authoring, Content Management, and Single-Source Publishing, Based on Alfresco Open Source CMS Platform

I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the DITA Open Platform
version 1.0.0

http://www.dita-op.org/

This milestone is a test release in order to see if there is interest
in the DITA community for what the DITA Open Platform project plans to
offer. It is also a mean to collect suggestions and ideas from the
community.

The goal of this project is to provide the DITA community with a free
and easy-to-deploy DITA oriented production platform. It is targeted

Concluding a partnership that has lasted over 15 years, XyEnterprise, provider of XML-based content management systems has announced that it has brought XSystems into the fold permanently through acquisition. The acquisition will result in the creation of a new business unit focusing on editorial tools development, standards expertise and consulting services and a new set of tools for the Contenta product suite.