A new DITA Open ToolKit release and brand new DITA newbie blog

Just announced last week, the DITA Open ToolKit has a version 1.3 release available now. One exciting addition for those of us who have struggled with the installation process is an all-inclusive installation package for the Open Tool Kit with everything but Java. Robert Anderson describes it in this post to the dita-users Yahoo group. I need to dig into it further, but he describes a new DITA Open Tool Kit Evaluation document that should be interesting to read. This Open Tool Kit release contains a preliminary interpretation of the DITA 1.1 specification so processing of 1.1 elements should work with this release.

I think the author of this new DITA Diary blog that I stumbled across today will be a perfect candidate for trying out the evaluation instructions. It's neat when two discoveries on the same day seem so relevant to each other.