DITA is not defined as a flat list of elements, but each element is either a base element or it derives as a specialized version of another element. This hierarchy should actually decrease the...

The DITA Open Toolkit publishing engine comes with support for predefined output formats such as HTM5, PDF, and Eclipse Help. As the architecture of the publishing engine is plugin-based, over time we...

PlantUML is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...

Mermaid is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...

By using our free DITA Open Toolkit plugin, you can embed diagram text descriptions (either in PlantUML or Mermaid format) in DITA topics and have them rendered as diagram images in the published...

It may be sometimes useful as an overview to obtain a graphical visualization of how your DITA topics refer to each other. The VisJS Javascript library can be used to construct node network diagrams...

I'm a software engineer, working for Oxygen XML Editor along side my colleagues in developing tools used by technical documentation writers. I also do lots of technical support and sometimes I write...

Most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have content written in various other formats and somehow they need that content converted to DITA. In this blog post, I...

Oxygen XML Editor publishes DITA content to various output sources using a bundled version of the DITA Open Toolkit (short name: DITA OT ) publishing engine. Oxygen versions prior to version 20 come...

Overview This small article is about the relationship between our company, Syncro Soft (which produces the Oxygen XML tools), and the open source DITA Open Toolkit project. As a commercial company...