Tutorial T6

TITLE: The DITA Architecture

LEADER: Michael Priestley

AFFILIATION: IBM Toronto, Canada

CONTACT PERSON: Michael Priestley

CONTACT EMAIL: mpriestl@ca.ibm.com

LENGTH: Half-day

TIME: Sunday, October 21, 2001; 2:00p -- 5:30p. 

ABSTRACT:

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture is an XML architecture for producing and reusing technical information. The base package for the architecture is produced at IBM, but freely available through developerWorks. This tutorial will cover the principles involved in chunking content into topics and contexts, creating a type hierarchy using DTD modules, and creating a process cascade using XSLT transforms. Some familiarity with the DITA architecture (documented on developerWorks), topic-oriented writing (chunking principles), DTD syntax, and XSLT syntax will be useful, but not required. The exercises will be kept fairly simple. Bring laptops with an XML editor, parser, XSLT interpreter, adn teh DITA package installed. At minimum, have a simple text editor, plus the DITA package, plus Apache's Xalan and Xerces installed.

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Last modified October 28, 2001 by Scott Tilley.