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DITA topic specialization

Analyze your content and build a specialized DTD

Bob DuCharme (bob@snee.com), Solutions Architect, Innodata Isogen

Bob DuCharme, a solutions architect at Innodata Isogen, was an XML "expert" when XML was a four-letter word. He's written four books and nearly one hundred online and print articles about information technology without using the word "functionality" in any of them. See http://www.snee.com/bob for more and www.snee.com/bobdc.blog for his weblog.

Summary: 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.

Date: 26 Feb 2008
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (58 KB | 16 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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