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

• Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
• Descriptions of the available DITA-OT Packages
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• Plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit
• Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit
• Information about the DITA-OT 1.4.2 Release

Discussion topics

• Incremental builds
• Fix indexing
• Document refactoring

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
• Eric Sirois (IBM) - contributor for several chunks of Eclipse and indexing related code
• Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst (VR Communcations, Inc) - DITA User Guide
• Mathew Varghese (Citrix) - DITA User Guide
• ...

Previous contributors

• Don Day (IBM) - Original project lead
• Chris Wong - until recently of Idiom, lead for the PDF2 plugin
• Many others not yet listed...