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Authoring and publishing information for this document.

Title
DITA Open Toolkit User Guide
Edition, release, copyright
Third edition, April 18, 2007. Based on release 1.3.1 of DITA Open Toolkit. All files copyright 2006-2007 by VR Communications, Inc., unless otherwise indicated. Licensing and usage of this document and related materials is regulated by a Common Public License (CPL) granted by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), http://www.oasis-open.org.
Publishing information
DITA Open Toolkit is an open-source, reference implementation of the OASIS DITA standard (currently DITA 1.0).
Authors
Anna van Raaphorst and Richard H. (Dick) Johnson, principals, VR Communications, Inc. (http://www.vrcommunications.com). DITA logo artwork by Elizabeth Tichenor (http://www.elizabethtichenor.com)
Major changes in this edition

  • The document title has been shortened
  • The document has been significantly restructured
  • New topics include key concepts, processing overview, localization, content reuse, building from within Eclipse, configuring the Eclipse XMLBuddy editor, creating Eclipse Infocenters, and publishing to XHTML using a frameset
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank those members of the DITA community who have authored or contributed content to this document: Kylene Bruski, Don Day, Anne Gentle, JoAnn Hackos, Jennifer Linton, Deborah Pickett, Michael Priestley, Nat Wyatt, Stephen Zhang, and various anonymous IBM writers. We are also grateful to others in the community who have offered valuable encouragement, feedback, suggestions, and sources of information: Robert Anderson, Bernard Aschwanden, Ricardo Mattiazzi Baumgartner, Bob Doyle, Andy Hall, Erik Hennum, Carolyn Henry, Ellen Livengood, Shawn McKenzie, Scott Prentice, Paul Prescod, Todd Rose, Kate Wilhelm, Stacey Winn, Chris Wong, and Bonnie Yelverton.
Invitation to contribute to future editions
The authors invite others in the DITA community to contribute to future editions of this document. To contact us: http://www.vrcommunications.com/aboutus.htm.