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Why choose XMLmind DITA Converter rather than the DITA Open Toolkit?

item Generates production-quality deliverables. If you want to see samples, please browse the documentation of ditac or download the DITA 1.2 specification as converted by XMLmind DITA Converter 2.x.

item The output of ditac is easy to customize:

  • The XSLT stylesheets support a large number of parameters.
  • The generated XHTML/HTML makes an extensive use of the class attribute. This makes it easy customizing the generated XHTML/HTML using CSS stylesheets.
  • The generated XSL-FO (then converted to PDF, RTF, etc, by the means of an XSL-FO processor such as Apache FOP) makes an extensive use of xsl:attribute-sets.
  • The complete separation between DITA preprocessing (written in JavaTM) and DITA transformation (written in XSLT 2.0) leads to pretty simple XSLT stylesheets. Therefore, redefining one or more XSLT templates when needed to is not an intimidating task. More information.
  • The stylesheets used to transform preprocessed DITA files are written in XSLT 2.0, which is at the same time easier to use and more powerful than XSLT 1.0.

item Supports a large number of output formats.

item Easy to embed in any JavaTM application.

item Created by XMLmind in order to be integrated in its commercial products. For a small company like XMLmind, technical mediocrity is not an option. It would imply going out of business.

Some good reasons to keep using the DITA Open Toolkit

item The DITA Open Toolkit is the reference implementation of DITA, approved by the persons who design the DITA standard.

item Has early support for the newest DITA specs.

item Extensible through plug-ins.

item Exists since several years, thus well-known by consultants.