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CATEGORY: DITA 1.3

1. Introduction to DITA

Course Access: Lifetime
Course Overview

Introduction to DITA covers the following DITA training topics:

What is DITA?

  • Markup languages
  • DITA is structured authoring
  • What is a DITA topic?

DITA topics

  • The generic topic type
  • Concept topics
  • Task topics
  • Reference topics
  • Glossary entry topics
  • Specialization

Metadata

  • What is metadata?
  • How do you use metadata?
  • Assessment for Metadata

Creating DITA content

  • Creating a topic in a text editor
  • Creating a topic in oXygen
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Block versus inline elementsTables
  • The simpletable elements
  • The table element
  • Best practices for tables

Creating relationships among topics

  • Map files
  • Transforming map files into outputs
  • Cross-references
  • Related links
  • Relationship tables
  • Reusing content with conrefs

Includes assessments.

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