Description
Prerequisites:
- Introduction to structured authoring and DITA
- DITA topics
- Using DITA maps and bookmaps
- Reusing content in DITA
Course type: Self-paced e-learning
Estimated hours for course completion: 2 hours
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Course outline:
Conditional processing basics
- What’s new in DITA 2.0
- How is conditional processing related to reuse?
- Reasons for conditional processing
- Writing with conditional processing in mind
- Conditional processing and translation
- Organizing content for publishing with conditional processing
- Delivery methods for conditional content
Conditional processing
- Tagging conditional elements
- The ditaval file
- Filtering content
- Flagging content
- What can you filter?
- Best practices for conditions
Linking methods
- Types of linking in DITA
- Cross-references to DITA topics
- Cross-references to DITA elements
- Cross-references to external resources
- Related links
- When to use reltables to generate links
Linking considerations and best practices
- Linking and reuse
- Linking and conditional processing
- Link scope and publishing
