DITA Production

Title: DITA Production
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Description: “So I’ve got a pile of DITA topics. Now what?” This full-day workshop shows
you the different ways you can assemble topics for different audiences and
outputs. The focus is on hardcopy/PDF output and HTML output. The day begins
with a detailed hands-on look at ditamaps, the building blocks of your
publications. You’ll learn how to assemble topics and set ditamap-level
attributes that enable you to customize the output. In addition, you’ll
create ditaval files and use them to filter the output to include or exclude
certain content based on attribute values. Next, the workshop introduces you
to the FO Plug-in (for PDF generation) and covers some of the most common
customization issues. You’ll then learn about some of the HTML formats, such
as XHTML, HTML Help, Web Help, JavaHelp and Eclipse Help. Finally, the
workshop takes you through the DITA Open Toolkit (OTK), explaining the major
parts and how each works, including stylesheets and build files.

Start Time: 8:30
Date: 2009-07-18
End Time: 17:00