> How do I use the DITA Docs? Is there a "DITA > Reader"? What is the common > way to read/view these documents? > > Thanks, > > Brian >
Brian, DITA is essentially an implementation of XML. So DITA files are just XML files using a specific dtd/schema. You can view DITA, as well as any XML file, using XML authoring software, such as XMLSpy, Epic, etc. Those cost money. However, I am pretty sure there are free XML authoring tools out there as well, anyone know of any? Whatever tool you use, you'll want to plug in the DITA toolkit dtd's so that the authoring tool can validate the DITA files you are working on. More information on DITA, as well as how to output DITA to PDF using FOP, and html using saxon, is available on the Derby manuals page at: http://incubator.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html I've done a lot of work with the DITA files myself, as well as transforming them using saxon and FOP, so if you have any more questions, please post by all means! We still are playing with the xsl files, so if you or anyone else has xsl knowledge and would like to improve our pdf output, it would be appreciated by all. Hope that helps, Jeff
