6. Introduction to reuse in DITA

Introduction to reuse in DITA covers the following DITA training topics:

Introduction to reuse

• Reasons for reuse
• Analyzing content for reuse
• Types of reuse

Creating reusable topics

• Writing for reuse
• Reuse and translation
• Reusing paragraphs
• Reusing steps
• Reusing list items
• Storing your reusable content

Reusing topics and maps

• Reusable topics and maps
• Reusing a topic in the same map
• Reusing maps
• Merging maps

Using content references

• What is a content reference?
• Conref basics
• The conref attribute
• Element requirements for conrefs
• Reusing across topics
• Attributes of content reference
• Best practices for using conrefs

Includes sample files and assessments.