Presenters: Joe Gelb, President, and Yehudit Lindblom, Project Manager, Suite Solutions

Abstract:

Converting existing content into DITA can help you reap the benefits of your new DITA documentation system and reach your target return on investment (ROI) more quickly. A quality conversion can also provide your authors with a solid foundation and benchmark from which to create new content, based on familiar, pre-existing material. In this webinar, Yehudit Lindblom and Joe Gelb from Suite Solutions will discuss the conversion process and steps to prepare specifications for your legacy conversion:

1. Develop mapping rules between the current document elements and new DITA tagging structures, including specifications for migrating conditional tagging (profiling) and variables.
2. Develop pre- and post-conversion checklists.
3. Use the conversion process to help understand the evolution between your current documentation and the new DITA XML content model.