DITA Introductory Training Course
HyperWrite's one day Introduction to DITA training course teaches participants the fundamentals of working in a DITA authoring environment.
It teaches the basic principles and theory of DITA, and practical techniques for creating high quality DITA content.
The DITA Introductory course is aimed at those who want to start creating and
publishing content using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML standard.
Following this course, you will be able to:
- Apply DITA and XML concepts and methodology
- Create well-structured, topic-oriented information
- Understand and use DITA maps
- Link and reuse topics and understand the use of conditional text
- Understand and use DITA transformaUnderstand and use DITA transformations
Pre-Requisites
Those attending this course should have a basic knowledge of HTML.
Contents
- What it's all about…
- XML and Innovation
- XML for Information Content
- Structured Authoring and XML
- Architecture
- Efficiencies
- Reasons for Adoption
- XML Explained
- Structure of an XML Document
- Five Commandments of XML
- Components of Structure
- Web 2.0
- DITA and Charles Darwin
- DITA Content Models
- Information Types
- Role of OASIS
- Open Standards
- Authoring in DITA
- Definitions and DITA “Features”
- Structured Authoring vs Style-based Authoring
- Topical Information Units
- Modular Writing
- Collections
- Single-Sourcing
- Content Re-use (Block)
- Content Re-use (Topic)
- Conditional Text (Flagging)
- Content Model
- Separation of Content and Form
- Semantic Markup
- Storage formats vs delivery formats
- Reading Formats
- Structured Authoring Simulator
- Examples of Structured Authoring Migration
- Enforcing Style Guide
- Authoring, Publishing and Management Tools
- Project Strategy
- Workflow and Process
- Team Skills
- Project Structure
- Mark-up Best Practice
- New Skills and Learning More
To enquire about this course, e-mail
Tony Self
or phone HyperWrite on +61 3 9893 4712.