The DITA Open Toolkit

 

This page is being created as a resource for more up to date information about the DITA Open Toolkit (replacing many of the out-of-date pages on dita.xml.org). It is being created on March 21 and should be relatively complete in the next couple of days.

 

The DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that provide a "reference implementation" for processing DITA maps and topical content. You can download the OT and install it for free on your computer, to get started with topic-based writing and publishing.

 

The best place to request enhancements to the DITA Open Toolkit is by opening a Request For Enhancement (RFE) in the RFE tracker at the DITA-OT Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/

General Information

• Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit

Contributors and stakeholders

The toolkit was originally developed within IBM, but was contributed to SourceForge in 2005 and has been updated significantly since that time. Significant contributors past and present include (but are not limited to):

• Don Day (IBM) - Former project lead
• Robert D Anderson (IBM) - Architect and current project lead, occasional developer
• Stephen Zhang (IBM) - Primary developer
• Deborah Pickett (Moldflow) - Frequent developer and contributor
• Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst (VR Communcations, Inc) - DITA User Guide
• Chris Wong - until recently of Idiom, lead for the PDF2 plugin