 | Level: Intermediate Bob DuCharme (bob@snee.com), Solutions Architect, Innodata Isogen
26 Feb 2008 Many resources are available to explain what Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) topic specialization is and the syntax to implement it, but you still might wonder "I have some content that might be a candidate for topic specialization. What's next?" In this tutorial, walk through a series of steps to evaluate your content's suitability for different DITA topic types, specialize one of those types, and test your specialization using the DITA Open Toolkit. In this tutorial
This tutorial walks you through the design, implementation, and testing of a
DITA topic specialization. After reviewing some sample content and mocking up
some DITA versions, you'll create the DITA specialization DTD, revise the samples to conform to it, and then test them by creating XHTML versions of the sample documents with the DITA Open Toolkit to make sure that everything is in place.
Objectives - Consider issues in content analysis and DITA specialization.
- Decide which DITA topic type provides the best basis for your
specialization.
- Code the DTD to implement that specialization.
- Test your implementation.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is written for XML developers with a basic understanding of DITA, DTD syntax, and the editing of XML documents to be valid to a particular DTD.
System requirements
You will need JavaScript enabled in your browser. To run the examples in this tutorial, you need:
- An editor that can edit XML documents
- A tool for validating documents
- An installed copy of the open source DITA Open Toolkit
Duration
1 hour
Formats html, pdf
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