The Products and Services area of the DITA community wiki provides a central location for users to share information about tools and services that may help with the development of DITA-based content. This area is open to developers, service providers, and users who want to pass on this information to the DITA community.

The following products support the authoring, management, and/or publishing of DITA-based content. Please include the company name and product (linked to an informational page), followed by a brief description of its features (sorted alphabetically by company name). Product reviews may be included below under in the appropriately named section.

• Adobe FrameMaker - Adobe FrameMaker is the market-leading tool for authoring and publishing technical content to multiple channels, including PDF, XML, HTML, print and more. Version 7.2 includes a simple DITA starter application, and more comprehensive DITA-based solutions are available from a variety of Adobe partners.
  WYSIWYG XML editor; PDF, HTML, and XML publishing; server version can be incorporated into publishing workflow; includes DITA support files.
   
• Altova Authentic
  WYSIWYG XML editor; includes DITA templates.
   
• Altova XMLSpy
  WYSIWYG/code XML editor; schema and DTD development; includes DITA templates.
   
• Arbortext Editor
  WYSIWYG XML editor; workflow management; publishing to multiple medita types; includes DITA support files.
   
• Astoria
  Content management, workflow, translation, and publishing; integrates with most authoring tools; supports DITA.
   
• Author-It
  WYSIWYG editing; workflow management; publishing to multiple medita types; includes DITA support files.
   
• Blast Radius - XMetaL Author DITA Edition
  XMetaL Author DITA Edition is the industry's first solution built exclusively for authoring DITA content. It combines all the powerful and productive features of XMetaL Author with new DITA-specific capabilities, including visual map editing, intuitive editing behaviors for DITA elements, drag-and-drop content references, and out-of-the-box integration with the DITA Open Toolkit for single-source publishing.
  WYSIWYG XML editor; DITA Map editor; integration with content management systems; integration with DITA Open Toolkit; comprehensive DITA support.
   
• Idiom, Inc. - WorldServer
  DITA-based workflow, translation, and content management system; integrates with FrameMaker and XMetaL for authoring.
   
• Information Mapping - Content Mapper
  MS Word based XML editor; XML/XSLT based publishing; use as a front-end XML-based CMS; supports DITA.
   
• IXIASOFT TEXTML Server
  Full featured XML-based CMS; supports DITA.
   
• SiberLogic - SiberSafe DITA Edition - SiberSafe DITA Edition, CMS of choice for techdoc teams, supports all leading DITA authoring environments, and leverages Semantic Web technologies and standards to streamline the capture, packaging and delivery of knowledge from those who own it (such as product designers and engineers), to those who need it (such as operators, support specialists, and maintenance personnel). Optimized for DITA-compliant topics and components, and pre-populated with concepts, tasks, and references that support individual specialization requirements, SiberSafe DITA Edition saves time and effort via the automatic generation of draft topics, easy content maintenance via assumptions management, fragment level management/versioning of topic maps, and of course workflow control, collaborative review, translation management, conditional publishing, and more.
  Integrated XML authoring, content management, workflow, and publishing; supports DITA.
   
• Syntext Serna
  XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML editor; supports DITA.
   
• Trisoft InfoShare
  Trisoft InfoShare is an XML based Content Management Solution.  It enables technical authors to really single source and to publish personalized documentation to different media including paper ,HTML, help etc. The system supports multiple languages and integrates seamlessly with XML authoring, publishing and translation tools. Trisoft InfoShare complies with the DITA standards out-of-the-box. All benefits of DITA in terms of standard information architecture, pre-defined output formats, inter-exchangeability, etc. are readily available in InfoShare.
   
• Vasont - The Vasont® content management system enables organizations to consolidate, manage, and store multilingual content - such as technical documentation, product manuals, training materials, and reference publications - as a single source for maximum reuse and multi-channel delivery. Vasont provides: single-source management of structured and unstructured content and assets; multi-language and translation management; advanced link management; built-in customizations; universal integration with editing tools; and support for standards such as DITA, SCORM, and S1000D.
  Content management, workflow, translation, and publishing; integrates with most authoring tools; supports DITA.
   
• XyEnterprise Content@
  Content management, workflow, translation, and publishing; integrates with most authoring tools; supports DITA.
   

Product Reviews:

• Adobe FrameMaker:
  
  • FrameMaker 7.2 Review - by Sarah O' Keefe, 2006
  • Come to Order: FrameMaker 7 Gives Structure to Documents - by Susan Glinert, Tuesday, June 4, 2002
• XMLmind XML Editor:
  
  • Review of XMLmind XML Editor v3.0 - by Tony Self, 2006
• Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor:
  
  • Review of Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor ver 3.2 - by Tony Self, 2006
• More to come...