Writing DITA content

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is a ready-to-use information model that can be used to create a wide variety of documentation.

 

Are you a technical writer and do you want to unravel the mysteries of DITA XML with a hands-on experience? Then take this course and you will soon be writing your own DITA topics in a program of your choice.

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Duration

2 days

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Subjects

• DITA: what is DITA and where does it come from?

• important properties of DITA XML

• XML basics (elements, attributes, schemas, DTDs)

• information types (task, concept, reference)

• information units (topic, map, bookmap)

• topics: create, open, edit, save, validate topics

• references and relationship tables

• create DITA map

• conditional publishing with ditaval and filtering of attributes

• tables

• graphics

• publishing with the Dita Open Toolkit (basics)

• reuse content with content references (conrefs) and key references (keyrefs)