This document discusses adopting the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard for technical documentation. It provides an overview of key DITA concepts like topics, maps, and building blocks. It also covers how to create DITA topics, generate output using the DITA Open Toolkit, and profile content using DITAVAL. The presentation aims to dispel myths about DITA being long and boring while providing practical tips through examples and demonstrations.

1. To DITA or not to DITA?Mathew VargheseContent Architect, Citrix

2. AgendaCreating DITA topicsGenerating output using DITA Open ToolkitProfiling using ditavalAltering style sheets

3. Misinformation!Long, boring, and highly theoreticalDemos will not work!Lots of Q&A to keep you awake :D

4. CREATING DITA Topics

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

7. Adopting DITA EntailsUnderstanding topic-based writingUnderstanding minimalismGreater emphasis on information architectureIn short, good writing practices.

8. Adopting DITA Does Not EntailLearning XMLCoding and/or working on a CLIIn short, no drastic change.

9. DITA makes you a better writerANDProvides alternate career opportunities

10. DITA Building BlocksTopicsConceptTaskReferenceMapsDitamapBookmap

11. DITA Building BlocksCRTCTTT

12. Creating DITA TopicsAnalyzeAnalyzeAnalyze again!Get the right specsExtend the DITA Information ModelContent Strategy - LaterUnderstand Semantic TaggingFrameMaker vs. DITA

13. Get the Right SpecsLanguage Specificationhttp://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/langspec/ditaref-type.htmlArchitecture Specificationhttp://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/archspec/archspec.html

14. Extend the DITA Information ModelCTR

15. Extend the DITA Information ModelCCC

16. Analyze, analyze, and analyze again!Audience AnalysisDITA TopicsTask AnalysisEvery DITA topic should map to a unique objective.

17. Content Strategy - LaterThe Paradigm Shift

18. Semantic TaggingBuild your tagging scheme

19. FrameMaker and DITAFrameMaker is a tool and DITA is an information architecture.FrameMaker supports DITA.Please, don’t hit me!

20. Generating Output

21. Install DITA OThttp://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/

22. Quick, Dirty, out-of-the-box!Using ANTant -f samples\ant_sample\sample_pdf.xml

23. Using the JAVA Command Linejava -jar lib/dost.jar /i:samples/sequence.ditamap /outdir:out /transtype:xhtml

24. Using the DITA OT GUIhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/ditaotgui/

25. Using Your Editing Tool

26. Profiling using ditaval

27. TipsProfile sparinglyAlways plan for negative conditionsPublish profiling rules

28. Pillar Testaudiencecontext

29. Transforms

30. Simple TricksModifying the CSS for HTML-based outputsXSL mods for PDFOpen demo/fo/cfg/fo/attrs/front-matter-attr.xslGo to __frontmatter__title attribute set

31. Questions