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What is XMLmind DITA Converter?

An industrial-strength DITA processor. A serious alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit.

XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for short) allows to convert the most complex DITA 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.1, JavaTM Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, EPUB, PDF, PostScript®, RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+), WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+), OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+).

Skeptic? Then please download the DITA 1.2 specification as converted by XMLmind DITA Converter 2.x and check that by yourself.

XMLmind DITA Converter at a glance

DITAC at a glance
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XMLmind DITA Converter has been developed in order to be integrated in the following XMLmind commercial products:

As such, XMLmind DITA Converter is professionally developed software, well tested, well documented and well supported.

XMLmind DITA Converter is free, open source, software licensed under the very liberal terms of the Mozilla Public License version 1.1.

All this makes XMLmind DITA Converter a very serious alternative to using the DITA Open Toolkit.

April 30, 2011: release of ditac v2.2.1: recommended upgrade: few, but important, bug fixes and enhancements.
March 13, 2012: release of ditac v2.2.0: Highlights:
  • New extended-toc XSLT stylesheet parameter allows to add frontmatter and backmatter topicrefs to the Table of Contents.
  • More powerful and more flexible specification of page headers and footers.
  • Many new XSLT stylesheet parameters and attribute-sets allowing to customize more easily and more extensively the presentation of PDF, RTF, etc, output files.
  • Support for Antenna House Formatter.
December 15, 2011: release of ditac v2.1.0_01: If you have XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v4.6+, XMLmind DITA Converter will now automatically generate outline levels for the RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML (.docx), OpenOffice (.odt) output formats.
December 6, 2011: release of ditac v2.1.0: Now allows to generate Web Help. Web Help example: XMLmind DITA Converter Manual.
July 22, 2011: release of ditac v2.0.4: Two important bug fixes.
June 24, 2011: release of ditac v2.0.3: A few minor enhancements.
June 2, 2011: release of ditac v2.0.2: Highlights:
  • XSLT stylesheet parameter cover-image makes it easy adding fancy cover pages to EPUB.
  • Nicer layout of the note element.