Description
Free DITA training! Learn about structured authoring, XML, and DITA.
Prerequisites: none
Course type: Self-paced e-learning
Estimated hours for course completion: 1–2 hours
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Course outline:
What is structured authoring?
- Principles of structured authoring
- Separation of content and formatting
- Automated multi-channel publishing
- Establishing a single source of truth
Is structured authoring right for you?
- Does your organization need structure?
- Developing a business case for structured authoring
- Implementing structured authoring
- Change management
- Content creator responsibilities
Structured authoring and XML
- Content hierarchy with elements and attributes
- Metadata
- Markup languages and structured authoring
- What is XML?
- What is DITA?
DITA topics
- What is a DITA topic?
- Common DITA elements
- Block versus inline elements
- Elements, attributes, and metadata
- DITA topics in a text editor
Creating relationships among DITA topics
- DITA map files
- Linking among DITA topics
- Reusing content with conrefs
