Description
Prerequisites: None
Estimated hours for course completion: 10-12 hours
Provided by the content strategy experts at Scriptorium, this course delivers a comprehensive introduction to DITA 1.3. You’ll learn how to create and manage structured content through lessons, assessments, and hands-on practice with sample files. The course guides you through authoring content in DITA, building relationships with maps and bookmaps, applying reuse strategies, generating output through a DITA publishing environment, advanced authoring practices, metadata, the Learning and Training specialization, and more. By the end, you’ll be ready to apply DITA best practices to real-world projects.
Course outline:
Introduction to DITA
- What is DITA?
- DITA topics
- Metadata
- Creating DITA content
- Creating relationships among topics
Authoring DITA concept topics
- Creating a concept topic
- Images and tables
- More elements
- Advanced elements
- XML overview and best practices
Authoring DITA task topics
- Creating a task topic
- Creating the steps
- Finishing up the task
- Best practices for tasks
Authoring DITA glossary and reference topics
- Creating a reference topic
- Best practices for reference topics
- Creating a glossary entry
- Best practices for glossary entries and groups
Using DITA maps and bookmaps
- Creating a map
- Creating a bookmap
- Advanced DITA map and bookmap concepts
- Relationship tables
Introduction to reuse in DITA
- Introduction to reuse
- Creating reusable topics
- Reusing topics and maps
- Using content references
Advanced reuse in DITA
- Using conditions
- Using keys
- Advanced conrefs
Publishing output from DITA sources
- Choosing a DITA publishing environment
- Setting up your DITA publishing environment
- Generating output
- Custom plugins
The Learning and Training specialization
- Overview
- The Learning and Training topic types
- Learning content
- Elements for questions and responses
- Learning objects and learning groups
Includes assessments.
