Led by Frank Miller or Hal Trent or Anne Bovard
Duration: two days

The Advanced DITA workshop will provide attendees with a hands-on walk-through of the essential DITA fundamentals, programming skills, and DITA Open Toolkit configurations required to assemble, style, and publish DITA XML source.

After a brief overview of the DITA framework, course lectures and exercises will focus on the key pieces of a DITA publishing architecture, how to set it up, and how to optimize its publishing capabilities using customizations and plug-ins. You will learn to set up a publishing architecture using the DITA-OT pipeline and learn how to configure and debug the DITA-OT.

With the publishing architecture set up and configured, participants will then be introduced to the programming skills required to customize and optimize the publishing architecture. Practical exercises will encompass all of the programming and markup languages needed to transform and format DITA XML for PDF and web output. Languages will include XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO, XHTML, and CSS.

The course will conclude with an overview of the upcoming DITA 1.2 specification and potential ramifications for the publishing architecture. You will learn about key features of the new specification as they relate to publishing, including keyref, conref push, constraints, and subject scheme maps. Exercises will focus on reuse and conditional processing using the keyref mechanism.

Who should attend?

• Tools specialists
• IT professionals
• Vendor representatives
• Information architects
• Style sheet developers

Highlights of the course:

• Receive hands on training using the new DITA 1.2 publishing mechanisms.
  Keyref, Conkeyref, Conref push, Subject Scheme maps
• Receive instruction on how to leverage the new DITA 1.2 authoring features.
  Task vs General Task, new elements
• Gain a better understanding of the entire DITA publishing process, starting with the Information Model and ending with a published document.
• Learn how tagging differences in DITA affect the final output.
• Apply different transformation scenarios to gain a better understanding of how markup can directly affect the final PDF or HTML output.
• Use DITA tagging to semantically structure your information and leverage XSLT and XSLFO to create specific document output.
• Learn about the available mechanisms for conditionally publishing your documents.

To register for this workshop, please visit the registration page.

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