Diff for The DITA Open Toolkit

--- Fri, 2011-12-16 21:25 by robander
+++ Sat, 2012-06-16 09:54 by jelovirt
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-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/<br />
+The normative information sources for DITA Open Toolkit are:
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+<ul>
+	<li>[[http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/|DITA-OT documentation site]]</li>
+	<li>[[https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/wiki|DITA-OT wiki at GitHub]] </li>
+</ul>
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+</p>
+<p>
+The best place to request enhancements to the DITA Open Toolkit is by opening an [[https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues|issue at GitHub]].
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 <h3>General Information<br />
 	<li>Download page for the latest stable release: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Stable%20Release/" target="_blank">DITA-OT final packages</a></li>
 	<li>Download page for the latest test build: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/files/DITA-OT%20Latest%20Test%20Build/" target="_blank">DITA-OT test builds</a></li>
-	<li>[[Installing the DITA Open Toolkit]]</li>
 	<li>[[Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit]]</li>
-	<li>[[DITA Processing]] - what happens during my build? </li>
 	<li>List of known [[Plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit]]</li>
 	<li>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) </li>
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 	<li>
-	For those wishing to contribute to the project, contribution forms are found here: http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/
+	For those wishing to contribute to the project, contribution forms are found [[http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/|DITA-OT documentation site]].</li>
-	</li>
-	<li>General coding practices in the DITA-OT:
-	<ul>
-		<li>[[XSLT coding practices in the DITA-OT]]</li>
-		<li>[[Java coding practices in the DITA-OT]]</li>
-	</ul>
-	</li>
 	<li>For information on how to extend the the DITA-OT with plug-ins, see [[http://dita.xml.org/wiki/dita-ot-plug-in-extension-points|all recognized DITA-OT Plug-in extensions]]</li>
-	<li>List of Ant/XSLT [[parameters-to-the-DITA-OT-transform|parameters to the DITA-OT transform]] </li>
 	<li>Information on [[Regression testing in the toolkit]]</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
-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
+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]].
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-<h3>Active contributors </h3>
-<p>
-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):
-</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>Robert D Anderson (IBM) - developer and current project lead</li>
-	<li>Jason (Jian Le Shen, IBM) - primary developer within IBM</li>
-	<li>Jarno Elovirta (Citec Information) - Java and XSLT developer</li>
-	<li>Rob Justice - DITA-OT Documentation</li>
-	<li>Eric Sirois (IBM) - contributor for several chunks of Eclipse and indexing related code </li>
-	<li>Aryeh Sanders and Reuven Weiser (Suite Solutions) - responsible for PDF output using the PDF2 transform </li>
-	<li>...</li>
-</ul>
-<h3>Previous contributors</h3>
 <ul>
-	<li>Don Day (IBM) - Original project lead</li>
-	<li>Stephen Zhang (IBM) - Primary developer through the first several years of the toolkit</li>
-	<li> Deborah Pickett (Moldflow) - Frequent developer and contributor</li>
-	<li>Chris Wong - original contributor of the PDF2 plugin </li>
-	<li>Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst (VR Communcations, Inc) - Original contributors of the DITA User Guide</li>
 </ul>
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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:

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

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