DITA lowers barriers to reuse, single-sourcing and content management by delivering information typing and component strategies out of the box, with various templates and style sheets that need only to be customised.
DITA is an information architecture that presents a powerful solution for information developers, that is simple enough to use in various scenarios. It is meant for those who need to implement structured documentation, including writers, editors, information architects, and their managers. This session will cover the basics of DITA topics, assembling topics using maps, creating relationship tables, and delivering it all to various media.
Length: 3 days (2 day course available for those already familiar with XML / SGML or advanced users of XHTML or removing all optional elements, Metadata)
Prerequisites: none (classes with attendees with very different experience levels with formal writing or structure should be discussed in advance with the trainer)
Content:
- Apply DITA concepts and working practices
- Conditional Content in Topic and Maps
- Review Elements
- Creating Maps
- Reusing with Maps and Conref
- Create DITA relationship tables
- DITA Prolog Metadata structures
- Optionally: DITA on the File System or DITA and Your CCMS
- Optionally: DITA Specialisation
- DITA Practicalities
- Anticipate pitfalls in a DITA roll-out
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