Led by Frank Miller
Duration: two days

Receive the XML Weekend Crash Course^TM book free with registration to this workshop.

In XML for Writers, participants work through multiple exercises and demonstrations on Document Modeling, establishing a DTD tree structure of your information, creating a DTD, and using the DTD to mark up a document in XML tags. The instructor gives demonstrations of processing and rendering techniques for creating exciting deliverables. Demonstrations of authoring and process tools are also given. Much of this interactive workshop focuses around the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and the benefits of using a topic-based writing approach. This includes development of information types, content units, and the powers of a single sourcing and content reuse strategy. You will come away with an understanding of how all of these different pieces fit together and what many of the acronyms, such as XML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML, XPath, and DITA, stand for.

Learn basic concepts that you need to implement an XML authoring and publishing environment. It's not as scary as you think.

Who should attend?

This workshop is designed for those who need to implement structured documentation using XML.

• Writers
• Editors
• Information Architects
• Managers

You will learn to

• Apply structure to your documents using XML
• Understand basic XML concepts and terminology
• Understand how XML is published into deliverables using XSLT
• Understand what XML tools exist to help you
• Understand the importance of minimalism
• Analyze your documentation to break it up into modular form
• Create a DTD (for your information) or use existing DTD standards (for your information) and understand how it works
• Understand the concepts behind DITA