Intro to XML, XMetaL and DITA
Who should attend the course?
This course is for users coming from unstructured authoring tools who want to learn to author DITA content using XMetaL Author. This can include technical authors, engineers, administrative personnel and knowledge workers who need to prepare documents and manuals to a high standard, ready for reuse and publishing through a DITA system. You will benefit from comprehensive instruction that will enable you to become productive immediately with, or without, a content management system.
How long is the course?
2 to 3 days depending on current skill level.
What are the benefits of attending?
The course will equip users new to structured information with a general understanding of structure, a contextual grounding of how structure relates to, and is different from, their current way of working, and why new disciplines need to be applied to their content creation. They will learn how the DITA standard should be applied and the skills necessary to create and work with structured templates to produce valid documents. It introduces the concepts of specialisations and conditional publishing with guidelines on how and when to use them. It explains how to use relationship tables and maps to create more robust information and reuse it across multiple different output types, as well as output formats, complete with different types of cross‑references (one-way, sequences, groups), DITA Conrefs, and the DITAVAL file. Actual case studies will be used as contextual references where possible.
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