DITA Quick Start Workshop for Authors

Abstract: The DITA Quick Start Workshop for Authors is designed to get you up and running authoring, managing and publishing your content using DITA.

• Be well grounded in the foundations of using DITA for documentation and training content
• Have hands-on experience authoring DITA content and assembling topics into deliverables
• Understand the basics of information architecture and be able to design your own content model, plan for reuse and achieve multi-purpose documents
• Be able to publish your content into PDF and HTML-based formats using the DITA Open Toolkit

Delivery Method: Instructor-led (bring your own laptop for in-class exercises)

Duration: 3 days – November 8-10, 2010

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Registration: register@suite-sol.com

Cost: 1200 Euros (the fee includes 3 days of training, daily lunches and training material)

DITA Training and Workshops for Authors

Day 1: DITA Overview

• Overview of DITA

• Business Advantages

• Topics: The Basic Information Types

• Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables

• Examples and Exercises

Day 2: Moving Ahead with DITA

• Linking Methods

• Using DITA for Training Content

• Reusing Content

• Information Architecture

• Revising Processes

• Examples and Exercises

Day 3: Filtering and Publishing

• DITA Tool Chain

• Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit

• Rendering outputs using different transtypes

• Filtering output using DITAVAL

• Common Errors and Mistakes

• Examples and Exercises