DITA

Publishing with FrameMaker

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Overview:

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, managing, and publishing your organization's technical content. DITA was designed to meet the evolving needs of organizations in the face of today's business requirements - for managing and publishing content for multiple products, multiple audiences, and multiple output formats.

This course teaches participants the skills necessary to author and publish DITA-compliant documents using the Leximation DITA-FMx plug-in for Adobe Framemaker. Students will learn the concepts behind DITA, such as information typing and topic-based authoring.

Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, on-site at your place of business or at Front Runner. Our custom training meets your needs.

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites:

Adobe FrameMaker
Template Design Best Practices
Adobe FrameMaker
Structured FrameMaker EDD Development
Adobe FrameMaker
Authoring Structured Documents

or equivalent knowledge.

Further Learning:

DITA
DITA for Information Architects

Objectives:

Upon successful completion attendees should be able to:

Understand the history, philosophy, and motivation behind DITA.
Create task, concept, and reference topics using structured FrameMaker.
Create DITA map files to specify collections of topics.
Use DITA map files to specify hierarchical and sequential relationships between topics.
Publish DITA topics as FrameMaker books.
Understand DITA content references (conrefs) to re-use DITA content.
Apply Metadata to support filtering of DITA content for multiple audiences.
Customize the FrameMaker DITA template to adjust the format of DITA PDF output.
Specialize the FrameMaker DITA plug-in to meet more specific information modeling requirements.