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An Introduction to DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture Explained

By Deborah Pickett.

Published by The Open Source Developers' Conference Papers

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML schema developed at IBM and since open-sourced. Recently reaching its 1.0 specification, DITA's approach combines the flexibility of XML with the extendability of object-orientation and the strictness of validating parsers. Tools for converting DITA documents into PDF, DocBook, HTML and Windows Help exist, utilizing XSLT and XSL Formatting Objects.

Article: Electronic (PDF File; 591.724KB). Published by The Open Source Developers' Conference Papers.