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                    <span style="font-size:14px;">Using DITA for Online Help</span><br/>
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                    Presented by Alan Houser at Documentation and Training West, May 6-9, 2008

DITA provides an end-to-end architecture for authoring, managing, and publishing topic-oriented technical information. DITA may appear to be an ideal solution for authoring and maintaining online help systems. However, the DITA specification does not directly accommodate many of the customary and expected features provided by conventional help authoring tools. Learn how you can use DITA today to deliver online help, and learn what the DITA Technical Committee is doing to make DITA more directly usable for online help in the future.

Attendees will learn the following:

* How features of the DITA architecture map to the structure of conventional online help systems
    * Why DITA can provide an ideal solution for authoring, maintaining, and delivering online help
    * Current issues and limitations when using DITA for online help
    * Common features of help authoring tools and how they map to (or don’t map to) DITA
    * Approaches for maintaining and delivering DITA-based context-sensitive help<br /><br />
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Slide 1:Using DITA for Online Help Alan Houser Principal Consultant and Trainer Tel: 412-363-3481 arh@groupwellesley.com Group Wellesley, Inc. www.groupwellesley.com

Slide 2:Presentation Summary An unfinished story…

Slide 3:About Me • Consultant and trainer in publishing tools and technologies • Member OASIS DITA Technical Committee • Member OASIS DITA Help Subcommittee • Society for Technical Communication, Liaison to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Slide 4:Overview of DITA design • Roots of DITA: minimalist approach

Slide 5:DITA and Online Help: The Possibilities In many ways, DITA looks like an architecture for creating help systems: • Topic-oriented architecture • Maps to define sets of topics for delivery • Sep

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