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DITA Quick Start Workshop

Offered by Suite Solutions (CIDM member)
Trainer: Joe Gelb (Member of the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee)

Abstract: The DITA Quick Start Workshop is designed to get you up and running authoring, managing and publishing your content using DITA. The workshop is intensive, pragmatic and includes plenty of hands-on exercises.

Course Objective: After completing this workshop, you will:

- Be well grounded in the foundations of using DITA for documentation and training content
- Have hands-on experience authoring DITA content and assembling topics into deliverables
- Understand the basics of information architecture and be able to design your own content model, plan for reuse and achieve multi-purpose documents
- Be able to publish your content into PDF and HTML-based formats using the DITA Open Toolkit

Duration: 3 days

Location: Jerusalem (We would consider moving the course to another location that is mutually convenient to the participants.)

Cost: NIS 3200 + VAT (includes 3 days of training, training booklet to take home, and daily lunches)
** 10% discount for Elephant members

Questions and Registration: register@suite-sol.com or 02-993-8054

Course Outline:

DITA Overview
Overview of DITA and structured authoring
Topics: The Basic Information Types
Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables
Using XML editors for authoring content
Linking methods
Examples and exercises

Moving Ahead with DITA
Reusing content
Information Architecture
Metadata and conditional text
Basics of contextual design
Revising processes
Migrating legacy content
Using DITA for training content
Examples and exercises

Publishing using the DITA Open Toolkit
Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit
Rendering outputs using different transtypes
Filtering output using DITAVAL
Common errors and mistakes
Examples and exercises

Join the other companies who’ve participated in Suite Solutions DITA training: AGFA, Sun, McKesson, Motorola, Intel, Informatica, VMware, Citrix, Emerson, Fair Isaac, McAfee, Teradata, TruePosition, Openwave, PayPal, Digital Fuel, MIB and many others…

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