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DITA Open Toolkit

DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is an open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).

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DITA Open Toolkit
Initial release3 March 2005 (2005-03-03)
Stable release
4.4 / 31 January 2026 (2026-01-31)
Written inJava, XSLT, Ant
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitewww.dita-ot.org
Repositorygithub.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/

DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is an open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).1

The toolkit's extensible plug-in mechanism allows users to add their own transformations and customize the default output, which includes:2

Originally developed by IBM and released to open source in 2005,3 the distribution packages contain Ant, Apache FOP, Java, Saxon, and Xerces.

Many DITA authoring tools and DITA CMSs integrate the DITA-OT, or parts of it, into their publishing workflows.4

Standalone tools have also been developed to run the DITA-OT via a graphical user interface instead of the command line.

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References

  1. Linton, Jen; Bruski, Kylene (2006). Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. Comtech Services. p. 225. ISBN 0-9778634-0-9.
  2. "DITA-OT documentation". Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  3. "DITA-OT 1.0 release". Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  4. "DITA-OT". Retrieved 13 July 2019.
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