DITA is quickly establishing itself as the leading method of creating XML-based technical documents and other product support content. DITA’s success is based on several things—a tag set that is straightforward and easy to learn, a publicly available toolkit that allows users to readily create print, Help, and other output, and specialization—a flexible and powerful means of customizing the DITA for your organization’s requirements. This tutorial will combine hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and discussion where attendees will learn DITA tagging, work with the DITA Open Toolkit, and understand how specialization can best be done. Tutorial attendees will receive and work with a (time-limited) copy of XMetal Author DITA Edition.

This tutorial will be conducted by Bill Trippe, Senior Editor of the Gilbane Report.