DITA is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing in recent memory. Though DITA is an IBM invention and plenty of material has been written about it already, this paper must be read as well to clear the air about any errors, omissions, or misinterpretations, from previous publications on this topic.
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Table
of
Contents
Introduction
...................................................................................................................3Why
You
Should
Care
About
DITA.........................................................................................3From
Necessity
to
Invention
-
The
Origins
of
DITA
..............................................................4Enter
DITA...............................................................................................................4DITA
Specialization
-
Matching
Your
Needs
.............................................................................5Reusability
-
Myth
or
Reality?........................................................................................5Designing
the
Ideal
Data
Model......................................................................................6How
Specialization
Works.............................................................................................7Easier
Authoring,
Better
Comprehension
.................................................................................8What's
in
a
Topic?......................................................................................................8How
to
Categorize
Your
Information................................................................................8Building
Better
Information
..........................................................................................9DITA
Applied
to
Software,
UI,
and
Formatting
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10Mastering
Your
Domain
...............................................................................................
10Starting
Out
Small................................................................................................
10Software
Elements......................................................................................................
10UI
&
Programming
Elements
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11Making
DITA
Work
...........................................................................................................
11You've
Got
DITA
Content!
Now
What?
.............................................................................
11Tying
it
All
Together
-
PTC's
Support
for
DITA
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12Summary
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Introduction.Adaptable
-
The
Topic
DTD
is
similar
to
HTML
in
that
it
specifiesa
set
of
generic
elements
each
with
different
formatting
suchDITA
is
one
of
the
most
important
innovations
in
XML
publishing
inas
titles,
paragraphs
and
lists.To
adapt
the
Topic
DTD
to
yourrecent
memory.
And
if
you're
using
or
plan
to
use
XML
