About DITA support in XMLmind XML Editor

About the DITA DTD

This configuration is based on the DITA DTD 1.1. The release of the alternative DITA configuration based on a W3C XML Schema rather than a DTD has been discontinued.

Integrated DITA Open Toolkit

This DITA configuration comes with its own (minimal) copy of the DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.2.1. Therefore there is no need to separately install the Toolkit if you want to convert your DITA topics and maps to HTML, PDF, etc.

Notes:
  • The end-user is likely to be disappointed by the new Convert menu: too few menu items (e.g. where is Convert to HTMLHelp?), no easy way to customize the HTML, PDF, etc, files that are generated its menu items.

    In fact, by creating this Convert menu, our intent was mainly to show integrators and consultants how XMLmind XML Editor integrates with DITA Open Toolkit. Therefore, out of the box, this Convert menu should not be considered as being ready for production use.

  • Generating PDF requires installing the "Apache FOP 1.x XSL-FO processor plug-in" add-on. Normally, this should have been done automatically when you installed this configuration. If this was not the case, simply use Options > Install Add-ons to do it.
  • This DITA configuration, because it contains its own copy of the DITA Open Toolkit, cannot be deployed using JavaTM Web Start.
  • The support code found in the DITA Open Toolkit has been slightly modified by XMLmind. Therefore the original dost.jar cannot be used in lieu of the one found in this DITA configuration.

Sample topics and maps

The document you are reading has been generated by converting DITA topics to various formats. We used XXE to create these topics and the corresponding maps. You'll find these topics and maps in directory XXE_user_preferences_dir/addon/dita_dtd_config/doc_src/, where XXE_user_preferences_dir is:


We recommend to open these topics and maps in XXE to see what can be done with our editor before attempting to use it for your own documents.