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Introduction to DITA topic-based authoring with Adobe FrameMaker 8


Max Dunn

Max Dunn

siliconpublishing.com

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. What is DITA?
  3. Key DITA features
  4. Topic-oriented authoring
  5. DITA maps
  6. Content referencing for reuse
  7. DITA support in Adobe FrameMaker 8
  8. DITA tutorial: Authoring DITA with Adobe FrameMaker 8
Created:
30 July 2007
User Level:
Intermediate

For over a decade, Extensible Markup Language (XML) authoring has offered benefits to publishing organizations, including content reuse, multichannel publishing, and standards-based information exchange. Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) offers a specific form of XML authoring that has the potential to revolutionize technical documentation. DITA represents a form of topic-based authoring, which has emerged as a best practice in technical documentation.

Adobe FrameMaker 8 has built-in support for the core features of DITA. This article offers a brief introduction to topic-based authoring with DITA and FrameMaker 8.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Adobe FrameMaker 8

Sample Files

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with structured authoring and XML

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About the author

Max Dunn is President of Silicon Publishing, an electronic publishing services company based in northern California. Silicon Publishing helps organizations automate publishing processes, including rendering single-source XML content to print and web.