In this section, DITA and the technologies in the background are explained.
DITA is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is a meta-language for creating new languages. To understand what DITA is, it is important to understand what XML is and how it works.
This section explains the basic principles of DITA.
This is a short summary of the DITA history. The detailed history can be looked up at http://dita.xml.org/book/history-of-dita.
A DITA project usually contains a DITA Map with multiple <topicref> elements that reference DITA Topics.
<topicref>
This section lists benefits of DITA.
This list shows the companies who voted for the DITA 1.3 specification.
SAP presented their worldwide DITA environment at the DITA-OT-Day 2016 in Munich/Germany.
