Order Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. If you have been using DITA or are just joining the DITA community, this book provides you with the information you need to accomplish your goals. The user guide not only presents the basic methodology of DITA and its benefits for creating your information set but explains step-by-step how to author DITA XML topics, create maps for your deliverables, specialize DITA topics, and work through the production processing tasks. The book includes a thorough explanation of the DITA model and the major elements used to create your topics using the task, concept, and reference information types. The DITA User Guide, written in DITA, uses a tutorial-based approach to help you create topic-based output.

Here are some of the questions the user guide can help you answer:

* How do I create DITA topics?

* How do I assemble DITA topics into DITA maps for output?

* How do I do conditional processing with DITA?

* How do I create my own specializations?

* How do I use the DITA Open Toolkit?