- DITA Open Toolkit
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The DITA Open Toolkit, or dita-ot, is an open-source publishing system for publishing DITA content to multiple formats. It was developed by IBM, and released as a public standard in 2001, along with DITA.
The dita-ot reference implementation uses Ant and Java.
The dita-ot can be extended to produce arbitrary output formats. Out of the box, it produces:
- PDF, through XSL-FO
- XHTML
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help
- Eclipse Help
- JavaHelp
- Oracle Help
- Rich Text Format
Some DITA authoring tools and CMSs, such as Oxygen XML Editor, XMetaL, Arbortext, and Syntext Serna now integrate the dita-ot, or parts of it, into their publishing workflows.
Standalone tools have also been developed to run the DITA OT via a graphical user interface instead of the command line.
Contents
References
See also
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Further reading
- Linton, Jen and Bruski, Kylene (2006). Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. Denver, CO: Comtech Services. http://www.comtech-serv.com/dita2.shtml#book.
External links
- http://dita.xml.org
- SourceForge page on the DITA OT
- Don Day's Resources Page for the DITA OT
- DITA Open Toolkit User Guide
- Download page for the DITA OT
- DITA Users - a member organization with workspace folders and online version of the DITA Open Toolkit
- PHP debugging tools for the DITA OT
- DITA Infocenter - DITA OT User Guide in online help format
Categories:- Technical communication
- XML
- XML-based standards
- Markup languages
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