DITA Open Toolkit


DITA Open Toolkit is an open-source publishing engine for XML content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
The toolkit's extensible plug-in mechanism allows users to add their own transformations and customize the default output, which includes:
Originally developed by IBM and released to open source in 2005, 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.
Standalone tools have also been developed to run the DITA-OT via a graphical user interface instead of the command line.