Conducted by an experienced consultant who’s slogged through the trenches on real projects, this three-day workshop is intensive, technical, and useful with plenty of hands-on exercises. It is geared for those who are familiar with DITA and need to go the next step to publish their DITA content into production-ready high-quality PDF or online Help using their own look and feel and meeting their own publishing and localization requirements.

Offered jointly by XyEnterprise & Suite Solutions.

West Coast Training Session - Silicon Valley
September 9-11, 2008
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Santa Clara, California

The Workshop will be appropriate for all levels of familiarity, from beginner to advanced user. Please note the technical prerequisite:
participants should already be familiar with DITA and XML.

Day 1: Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit
* Overview of the DITA-OT and its Components
* Rendering Outputs in Different Formats with the DITA-OT
* Filtering Output Using DITAVAL
* Common Errors and Mistakes
* Where to Go for Support: Online Resources

Day 2: Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-in for Generating PDFs
* Getting Started with XSL, XSL-FO and XPath
* Introduction to the FO Plug-in
* Customizing the FO Plug-in
* Customization Case Studies
* Customizing for Localization
* Rendering PDFs with Antenna House, RenderX and XPP
* Configuration Issues and Debugging Tips

Day 3: Understanding and Configuring the DITA-OT for Publishing HTML formats
* Overview of HTML Formats: Web, HTML Help, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help
* Overview of Transtypes and Files Generated for Each Format
* Customizing Style Sheets: XSLT and CSS
* Case Studies and Samples
* Overview: Publishing via FrameMaker DITA-FMx, WebWorks, RoboHelp

Cost
$1,200 per student. This fee includes three days of instruction, a detailed course-guide/workbook to bring home, and daily lunches.

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