Presented at the XML 2007 conference, this tutorial provides a quick start introduction to the DITA specification with a focus on how to create and process DITA-based content as well as key DITA concepts including modular writing, re-use, linking using maps and relationship tables, and specialization. At the end of the class, students will be prepared to evaluate the applicability of DITA to their own documentation and publishing requirements and start experimenting with the authoring and production of DITA-based content using any XML editor and the DITA Open Toolkit.
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While watching the video, open the Powerpoint in a separate window to see the slides perfectly. You then can advance the slides when Eliot does, or navigate them separately.
Powerpoint- Presentation Part 1 (20 minutes)
- Presentation Part 2 (12 minutes)
- Modular publishing with DITA - a Travel Guide (11 minutes)
- DITA Maps with relationship tables, DTD catalog, Shell DTD, Publishing with OT (16 minutes)
- Maps, files, name conventions, toolkit (7 minutes)
- When Concept, Task, Reference? Specialization, Adding a Topic (8 minutes)
- DTDs for Specialization, Markup, Maps, Shell DTDs, Topics, Related Links (10 minutes)
- Migrating legacy content, Tasks, References, Concepts, Relationship Tables (12 minutes)
Eliot has worked with essentially every SGML- and XML-related tool relevant to document authoring, management, and production that has been produced in the past 15 years. He is a founding member of the W3C XML Working Group and Co-editor, with Charles Goldfarb and Steve Newcomb, of ISO/IEC 10744:1996, HyTime 2nd Edition.
As Senior Content Engineer at Really Strategies, Eliot leads publishers through various content management initiatives, including RSuite CMS implementations, XML and desktop publishing applications, DITA requirements and standardization, and information and process analyses. He is fluent in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, DTD development, XSD Schema, XPath, XQuery, XInclude, Xlink, and other standards that relate to information management and publishing.
About DITA Users
This tutorial was recorded, encoded, and posted to the Tutorials section of the DITA Users website. DITA Users provides free online editing tools (DITA Storm) and a web-server-based version of the DITA Open Toolkit to help newcomers get started with the DITA standard, without the hassle of knowing XML or installing anything.
