DITA Quick Start Workshop

Abstract: The DITA Quick Start Workshop 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 – October 19-21, 2010

Location: The Solution Center - 1101 Slater Road, Suite 200 Durham, NC 27703

Registration: register@suite-sol.com

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

Prerequisites: None

• Overview of DITA
• Topics: The Basic Information Types
• Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables
• Structured authoring
• Examples and exercises

• Linking methods
• Using DITA for Training Content
• Reusing content
• Information Architecture
• Revising processes
• Migrating Legacy Content: Planning and Conversion
• What’s new in DITA 1.2
• Examples and exercises

• Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit
• Rendering outputs using different transtypes
• Filtering output using DITAVAL
• Filtering output using DITAVAL
• Common errors and mistakes
• Examples and exercises