DitaExchange - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

When a regulation changes, every procedure and manual that quotes it has to change too, and an auditor will ask who approved each version. DitaExchange makes that manageable without moving your teams to a new editor.

DitaExchange is a component content management system (CCMS) that works inside the Microsoft 365 tenant you already run. Experts write in Microsoft Word. Content is stored in SharePoint, under the security, identity and data residency your IT team has already approved. Behind the scenes, each rule, procedure step and paragraph becomes a component based on the DITA open standard, with its own ID and version history.

Write a clause once and reuse it in every manual, edition and language. When it changes, see every document that uses it, update it in one place and publish again to Word, HTML or XML.

The platform has four parts: Dx5 for management, approval workflows and publishing in SharePoint; DxAuthor+ for structured authoring in Word; DxChecker for automatic quality rules on terminology, dates, metadata and wording; and DxMigrationTool to bring existing Word, HTML and Markdown documents in as structured topics.

Regulators use DitaExchange to write and publish rules: the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has done so since 2018. Regulated organisations in aviation, defence, nuclear and finance use it to keep their own procedures linked to the rules they implement. You can start with the documents you have today and add structure step by step.