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Program Titles
“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”
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] Making DITA Work For Your Data
Speaker: Alan HouserTime: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Date: May 9
Track: Post-Conference Workshops
Experience level: Advanced
Room: Pinnacle Ballroom 1
Laptop computer required for this session A key design feature of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is specialization—the ability to design customized information types without designing a new processing environment. Specialized DITA content can be shared, exchanged, managed, and published in the same manner, with the same tools and processes, as the base DITA topic type and built-in task, concept, and reference specializations.
This advanced workshop will step through the process of creating a DITA specialization, from customization of the DITA DTDs to integration of specializations with the DITA Open Toolkit. We will also demonstrate and discuss commercial tools support for DITA specializations.
Workshop participants will learn the following:
- When to consider creating a DITA specialization
- The differences between DITA domain versus structural specializations
- Design approaches for DITA specialization
- Choosing appropriate DITA elements for specialization
- Creating your specialized DTD
- Modifying stylesheets (CSS and XSLT) to provide customized processing and output formatting for your specialization
- Integrating your specialization with the DITA Open Toolkit for automated processing
Students who wish to have a hands-on experience are invited to bring a laptop computer with the DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.4 or later installed and configured. The DITA Open Toolkit is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot.
