The DITA Open Toolkit

The DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. You can download the OT and install it for free on your computer to get started with topic-based writing and publishing. Note: while the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is an independent, open source implementation of the standard.

 

The normative information sources for DITA Open Toolkit are:

 

• DITA-OT documentation site
• DITA-OT wiki at GitHub 

 

The best place to request enhancements to the DITA Open Toolkit is by opening an issue at GitHub.

General Information

• Release notes for the current release: DITA-OT Release 1.5.4
• Plans for the next release, currently under development: DITA-OT Release 1.6
• Descriptions of the available DITA-OT Packages
• Download page for the latest stable release: DITA-OT final packages
• Download page for the latest test build: DITA-OT test builds
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• List of known Plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit
• Getting the PDF2 plugin to work with FOP in older versions of the toolkit: PDF2 with FOP  (Note: as of DITA-OT 1.5, the PDF2 code ships as the default PDF process, and supports FOP)
• Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit

Discussion topics

• Incremental builds
• Fix indexing
• Document refactoring

Developer information

• For those wishing to contribute to the project, contribution forms are found DITA-OT documentation site.
• For information on how to extend the the DITA-OT with plug-ins, see all recognized DITA-OT Plug-in extensions
• Information on Regression testing in the toolkit

Developers and vendors using the toolkit are encouraged to join the dita-ot-developer mailing list. This list is used to discuss upcoming changes that may impact developers or vendors: https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=132728.

Information about individual releases

• Release currently under development: DITA-OT Release 1.6
• Latest Stable Release (December 15, 2011): DITA-OT Release 1.5.4
• DITA-OT Release 1.5.3
• DITA-OT Release 1.5.2
• DITA-OT Release 1.5.1
• DITA-OT 1.5
• DITA-OT 1.4.3 Release
• DITA-OT 1.4.2.1 Release
• 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
• Cumulative release notes for all DITA-OT releases: http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/readme/DITA-changes.html