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24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody
Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite
Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication
Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7
[Workshop] Content Engineering
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
[Workshop] Introduction to XSL
[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data
[Workshop] Simplified Technical English
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite
Session Details
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
Speaker: Alan HouserTime: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Date: May 9
Track: Post-Conference Workshops
Experience level: Intermediate
Room: Point Grey Room
Laptop computer required for this session During this hands-on workshop, we will review basic DITA concepts and DITA mark-up as we work with one of the popular DITA authoring tools—XMetaL from JustSystems.
Workshop participants will learn the following:
- Overview of the XMetaL authoring interface
- How to create and modify DITA topics in XMetaL
- How to set and use DITA filtering attributes for maintaining and publishing customized content
- How to create and use reusable content components (DITA conrefs)
- How to create links to other topics and external resources (e.g., URLs)
- How to work with the XMetaL map editor to specify topic collections
- How to publish DITA content from XMetaL
- How to work with DITA specializations in XMetaL
Students should bring a laptop computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista. A trial version of XMetaL DITA edition will be provided to workshop participants.
