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

Generates production-quality deliverables. Please browse the documentation of ditac if you want to see samples.

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 Java^TM) 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.

Supports a large number of output formats.

Easy to embed in any Java^TM application.

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

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

Supports DITA 1.2. More generally, has early support for the newest DITA specs.

Extensible through plug-ins.

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