1. To DITA or not to DITA? Mathew Varghese Content Architect, Citrix

2. Agenda Creating DITA topics Generating output using DITA Open Toolkit Profiling using ditaval Altering style sheets

3. Misinformation! Long, boring, and highly theoretical Demos will not work! Lots of Q&A to keep you awake :D

4. CREATING DITA Topics

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

7. Adopting DITA Entails Understanding topic-based writing Understanding minimalism Greater emphasis on information architecture In short, good writing practices.

8. Adopting DITA Does Not Entail Learning XML Coding and/or working on a CLI In short, no drastic change.

9. DITA makes you a better writerANDProvides alternate career opportunities

10. DITA Building Blocks Topics Concept Task Reference Maps Ditamap Bookmap

11. DITA Building Blocks C R T C T T T

12. Creating DITA Topics Analyze Analyze Analyze again! Get the right specs Extend the DITA Information Model Content Strategy - Later Understand Semantic Tagging FrameMaker vs. DITA

13. Get the Right Specs Language Specification http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/langspec/ditaref-type.html Architecture Specification http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/archspec/archspec.html

14. Extend the DITA Information Model C T R

15. Extend the DITA Information Model C C C

16. Analyze, analyze, and analyze again! Audience Analysis DITA Topics Task Analysis Every DITA topic should map to a unique objective.

17. Content Strategy - Later The Paradigm Shift

18. Semantic Tagging Build your tagging scheme

19. FrameMaker and DITA FrameMaker is a tool and DITA is an information architecture. FrameMaker supports DITA. Please, don’t hit me!

20. Generating Output

21. Install DITA OT http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/

22. Quick, Dirty, out-of-the-box! Using ANT ant -f samplesnt_sampleample_pdf.xml

23. Using the JAVA Command Line java -jar lib/dost.jar /i:samples/sequence.ditamap /outdir:out /transtype:xhtml

24. Using the DITA OT GUI http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditaotgui/

25. Using Your Editing Tool

26. Profiling using ditaval

27. Tips Profile sparingly Always plan for negative conditions Publish profiling rules

28. Pillar Test audience context

29. Transforms

30. Simple Tricks Modifying the CSS for HTML-based outputs XSL mods for PDF Open demo/fo/cfg/fo/attrs/front-matter-attr.xsl Go to __frontmatter__title attribute set

31. Questions