Come and walk through practical examples of how to work with and move to DITA. Mekon's Ferry van der Vorst will be sharing his DITA knowledge at Technical Communications 2009. Join Ferry in his introductory workshop Implementing DITA for the Technical Author Workshop on 22 September in Derby.
After a brief introduction to DITA, a practical example will be given on how to convert a typical document to DITA. The workshop will be looking at how to plan what content is migrated into topics; whether and how content is split up over multiple ditamaps or nested within other topics; and how reltables in a ditamap are used to link topics.
Through demonstrations, we will demonstrate the advantages for a technical author migrating to DITA when managing and publishing single-source content to different output streams; using and amending DITA topics through a range of different publishing tools; and reusing content in new publications. A basic understanding of mark-up languages (HTML, XML, or SGML) is beneficial but not required.
Find out more on the conference website.
