PTC Arbortext has developed a custom DITA application that provides 80-90% of the work to produce a service manual for web and print publication.

Featuring a number of DITA topic specializations (SMA Task, SMA Concept, SMA Reference, and a Troubleshooting specialization), coordinated XSL stylesheets produce a manual with a standard two-column layout.

The SMA shows the competitive advantage of managing a DITA project with integrated tools from Arbortext Editor with Styler.

PTC reports great growth in DITA among their clients. They describe the importance of DITA in a PDF document entitled PTC Arbortext Solution for DITA.

Will we be seeing more fully developed applications like this for DITA?