DITA-OT Plugins

Documentation for a series of plug-in for DITA Open Toolkit that extends the default processing with additional functionality

Each DITA-OT Plug-in has been tested against DITA-OT 4.x. It is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version. Detailed instructions for installing each plug-in can be found in the relevant section of the documentation.

Installing DITA-OT

DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open-source tools that provide processing for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.Full installation instructions for downloading DITA-OT can be found here.

  1. Download the dita-ot-4.0.zip package from the project website at dita-ot.org/download
  2. Extract the contents of the package to the directory where you want to install DITA-OT.
  3. Optional: Add the absolute path for the bin directory to the PATH system variable.

This defines the necessary environment variable to run the dita command from the command line. 

curl -LO https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/releases/download/4.0/dita-ot-4.0.zip
unzip -q dita-ot-4.0.zip
rm dita-ot-4.0.zip