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An Introduction to DITA XML - An e-learning training course

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is certainly the most talked-about development in the field of user documentation. If you are involved in writing documents such as user manuals, procedures or online Help, DITA promises you a framework for designing and delivering well-structured content efficiently and consistently in a single-sourcing environment. We have adapted our classroom based "Introduction to DITA", so that it is now available to you as an affordable e-learning course.

What is DITA?
DITA is open source, XML-based, and has been adopted as a standard at organisations such as IBM and Nokia. It provides a standard approach for creating task-oriented information and assembling topics into books or other outputs. DITA provide a structure designed for most technical information, and provides a way of customising it for your industry's needs.

Who should attend?
This e-learning course on how to DITA XML is for technical authors, writers, editors, information architects and documentation managers who see training as vital to their careers, and who want to learn about or implement structured documents.

Following this course, you will be able to:
• Apply DITA and XML concepts and methodology
• Create well-structured, topic-oriented information
• Understand and use DITA maps
• Link and reuse topics and understand the use of conditional text
• Understand and use DITA transformations
• Recognise the need for specialisation in DITA

Money back satisfaction guarantee

100% guarantee This course comes with a 90-day money back satisfaction guarantee.

The course comprises:
- A set of e-course modules, presented as online slides with audio voiceover. You'll view and listen to these using a Web browser.
- An accompanying workbook, presented as an Acrobat (pdf) document, containing additional information and exercises.

You'll get 80mb of course notes, presentations, exercises and examples, so you'll need a broadband connection to download the course. The course takes approximately half a day to complete, although, of course, you can go through it at your own pace. You can use the e-course as an audio guide to the workbook, if you prefer working in that way.

About DITA
- What is DITA?
What is XML?
DITA Fundamentals
Why should I use DITA?
DITA and reuse

Introduction to Topics
- Introduction to topics
- Topic-oriented writing

Body Elements
- Sections
- Examples
- Tables
- CALS Tables
- Images

Topics - the basis of DITA
- Types of topic
- Generic topics
- Concepts
- Tasks
- References

Organising topics
- About maps
- How to write maps

Linking and reusing topics
- Cross references
- Related links
- RELTABLES
- CONREFS

Conditional content
- Conditional content

Transforming DITA
Why you need to transform DITA
- What is XSLT?
- What is the DITA Open Toolkit?
- What is AnT?
- What is FoP?
- Running transformations
- Using tools to create and transform DITA
- Specialising DITA

Prerequisites
Some knowledge of HTML code: the principles of tagging and its basic tags.

Price
We have clients who have paid over £900 for us to deliver the classroom version of this course to their writers. By modifying this course to online format we've been able to slash the cost, to make it affordable to individual technical writers who see training as vital to their career.

The cost of the course is: £74 ex VAT ($146) per delegate.

The modules are password protected. If you wish more than one delegate to complete the course, change the quantity to the the number of delegates you have.

(Please note we accept payment in US $, STERLING and EUROS. You will be given the option to choose your currency when you confirm your credit card details.)

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New - e-learning course on how to use DITA XML. This is for technical authors, writers, editors, information architects and documentation managers who see training as vital to their careers, and who want to learn about or implement structured documents.

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