The DITA Open Toolkit

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

• Descriptions of the available DITA-OT Packages
• Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• DITA Processing - what happens during my build?
• Plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit
• Getting the PDF2 plugin to work with FOP: PDF2 with FOP
• Information about the DITA-OT 1.4.2.1 Release
• Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit
• For developers: Regression testing in the toolkit

Discussion topics

• Incremental builds
• Fix indexing
• Document refactoring

Developer information

For those wishing to contribute to the project, contribution forms are found here: http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/

Active contributors

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

• Robert D Anderson (IBM) - Architect and current project lead, occasional developer
• Stephen Zhang (IBM) - Primary developer
• Deborah Pickett (Moldflow) - Frequent developer and contributor
• Aryeh Sanders and Adena Frazer (Suite Solutions) - responsible for PDF output using the PDF2 transform
• Eric Sirois (IBM) - contributor for several chunks of Eclipse and indexing related code
• Mathew Varghese (Citrix) - DITA User Guide
• Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst (VR Communcations, Inc) - DITA User Guide
• Chris Wong - original contributor of the PDF2 plugin
• ...

Previous contributors

• Don Day (IBM) - Original project lead
• Many others not yet listed...

Information about older releases

• DITA-OT 1.4.2 Release
• DITA-OT 1.4.1 Release
• DITA-OT 1.4 Release
• DITA-OT 1.3.1 Release
• DITA-OT 1.3
• DITA-OT 1.2.2
• DITA-OT 1.2.1
• DITA-OT 1.2
• DITA-OT 1.1.2.1 patch
  
• DITA-OT 1.1.2
• DITA-OT 1.1.1
• DITA-OT 1.1
• DITA-OT 1.0.2
• DITA-OT 1.0.1
• DITA-OT 1.0