A user guide for the popular OASIS DITA standard. If you have been using DITA, or are just joining the DITA community, this book provides you with the information you need to accomplish your goals. The user guide not only presents the basic methodology of DITA and its benefits for creating your information set, but explains step-by-step how to author DITA XML topics, create maps for your deliverables, and work through the production processing tasks. The book includes a thorough explanation of the DITA model and the major elements used to create your topics using the task, concept, and reference information types. The DITA User Guide uses a task-based approach (the user guide is written with DITA) to help you create topic-based output. Here are some of the questions we help you answer:

• How do I create DITA topics?
• How do I assemble DITA topics into DITA maps for output?
• How do I do conditional processing with DITA?
• How do I create my own specializations?
• How do I use the DITA Open Toolkit?

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Key features include:

• Fast Access: installs directly to your hard drive for quick and easy off-line search and access from the ‘Drag-on’ icon on your desktop.
• Ease of Use: a very fast comprehensive 'search' function enables you to find precisely what you need every time. The search highlights results and provides forward and backward navigation. The Table of Contents features dynamic expandable tree views and is always synchronized with the content.
• Multi-view screen: enables the publication to be viewed and searched in up to four different areas concurrently.
• Extensive Annotation Capabilities: attach notes to any content; associate or store data files, graphics, web or email addresses within notes. Interact collaboratively with your colleagues using Notes, and when you upgrade to a new version in the future all your Notes are automatically transferred in context.
• Compatibility: the eComPress Introduction to DITA is compatible with all MS Windows versions including 98, 2000, XP, Vista and 7. It will also run on Apple using a number of tools, including Parallels, VMWare Fusion, and others.

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