The OASIS DITA Adoption TC is pleased to announce Stan Doherty's presentation on Integrating Markdown Into Your DITA 1.3 Pipeline. Stan will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to supplement an out-of-the-box DITA 1.3 deployment with the software, templates, and processing logic required to author and integrate Markdown-encoded topics alongside your DITA topics and maps. Stan will cover the following topics:

• Downloading and installing the JAVA SDK (required for the DITA Open Toolkit).
• Downloading and installing the DITA Open Toolkit.
• Installing and testing Jarno Elovirta's Markdown parser for the DITA Open Toolkit.
• Developing a test domain to explore your options for authoring and integrating Markdown content.
• Best practices for encouraging engineers to participate in this Markdown-to-DITA workflow.