Plug-ins for the DITA Open Toolkit

The following plug-ins are freely available for use with the DITA Open Toolkit. If you have plug-ins that are publicly available, please add them to this list.

A recorded demo of how to create a plugin is available here (approximately 1 hour): http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/open_toolkit/anderson/

Extension points for DITA-OT Plug-ins are described in greater depth here: DITA-OT Plug-in extensions

Available at the DITA-OT SourceForge site

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132728

• The "PDF2" Plugin, contributed by Idiom Technologies, for producing production quality PDF output using XSL-FO. On June 23, 2008, Suite Solutions announced that they would take over support for the PDF2 output; for more information, see their press release. Note that this plug-in is now shipped with the core download of the DITA-OT.
• Music: a sample specialization with README files describing how to set up a plugin. Includes HTML formatting overrides, including localized table headings. Maintained by Robert D Anderson at IBM.
• Context Sensitive Help specialization, with XHTML overrides and Eclipse CSHelp file generator. Mantained by Jeff Antley at IBM.
• Docbook2dita - a transform from Docbook to DITA and some proof-of-concept examples of interoperability.
• Message Specialization; reference specialization for encoding messages. Includes XHTML processing overrides. Contributed by Scott Stark at IBM.
• FrameMaker adapter from Mekon (Mark Poston) and XMetaL: a transform that creates a single book file from a map that can be imported into FrameMaker for final printing (more information at http://dita.xml.org/node/1384).
• APIRef Reference specialization and XHTML formatting overrides. Contributed by Erik Hennum at IBM.
• Java APIRef Reference specialization and XHTML formatting overrides (requires the APIRef plugin). Contributed by Erik Hennum at IBM.
• Thesaurus plugin: a specialization that defines formal subjects and the relationships between those subjects so you can classify what your content is about. Contains early work for the classification support coming from OASIS in DITA 1.2. Contributed by Erik Hennum at IBM.
• Troubleshooting specialization and XHTML processing overrides, contributed by Scott Stark at IBM.
• "Plus" plugins are a drop-in replacement for HTML-based transforms (html, xhtml, htmlhelp, eclipsehelp) with lots of extension points for other plugins to extend.  Contains sample plugins that render equations and syntax diagrams as SVG, can rasterize SVG to bitmaps, add context-sensitive help to HTML Help, and other common tasks. A prebuilt zip file of the plugins can be found at dita-users (see below).

Available from dita-users

Log in to dita-users and go to the Files section, and then into the Demos folder:

• TOCJS plugin from Shawn McKenzie
• HTMLSEARCH plugin from Nadege Quainen
• "Plus" plugins (described above)

Available from other sources

• DITA2InDesign from Eliot Kimber: http://dita2indesign.sourceforge.net/
• Ancestors Plugin from Qwcode.com: Provides ancestor breadcrumb links for xhtml output. Tested with Dita-OT v1.4.3 and v1.5.  There is also a version available that's compatible with v1.4.2.1 for those using Dita-OT embedded in Xmetal 6.0.
• Highlight Plugin from Qwcode.com: Provides source code highlighting in codeblock elements for xhtml output using the xslthl package. Tested with Dita-OT v1.4.3 and v1.5
• HighlightJS Plugin from Qwcode.com: Provides source code highlighting in codeblock elements for xhtml output using the prettify package. Tested with Dita-OT v1.4.3 and v1.5