Training

• Practical Introduction to DITA
• Introduction to OmniMark
• Advanced OmniMark Programming
• XML Best Practices
• Content Engineering Workshop
• XML Schema Modeling

Practical Introduction to DITA

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the increasingly popular approach to creating, reusing and publishing XML content.

Its popularity is based on helping organizations, often new to using XML, implement solutions quickly and cost-effectively. Even organizations that are experienced implementers of XML are finding that aspects of DITA are helping them to address long-standing problems in publishing system maintainability and authoring productivity. Any organization that invests in creating content for widespread use can benefit from understanding more about DITA.

The Practical Introduction to DITA is just that - a rapid but effective introduction to using DITA successfully. It is an introduction that emphasizes real-world examples and exercises in order to provide attendees with a practical, hands-on understanding of how DITA works and how it can be tailored to address a wide range of requirements.

Workshop Contents

This two-day on-site workshop addresses the following topics:

Day 1 - DITA Fundamentals

• Central ideas behind DITA
• Achieving the real benefits of content reuse
• The role of Topics and Maps
• Topic-based authoring
• Implementing reuse, cross-referencing, relationship tables
• What comes "out-of-the-box" with DITA
• The DITA Reference Implementation (Open Toolkit)

Day 2 - Leveraging DITA

• Adapting DITA to address specific requirements
• DITA Specialization Model
• Best practices for specializing DITA
• Implementing DITA
• Evolving the DITA environment to meet new requirements
• Migrating content into DITA
• Supporting authors and editors in the move to DITA

Workshop objectives

• Provide a comprehensive overview of DITA
• Provide attendees with hands-on experience
• Equip attendees with a framework for planning, implementing, supporting and evolving a DITA environment
• Introduce best practices for migrating content into DITA, supporting authors and addressing the risks associated with specialization

Who should attend

• Publishing solution implementers
• Publishing system administrators
• Information architects
• XML developers
• Authors and editors

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