Working with DITA in Oxygen

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit maps and topics, create references, insert media objects, tables, and other elements, as well as how to benefit from intelligent features such as validation and completeness check for DITA maps.

Covered topics:

• The DITA UI perspective
• Creating and editing maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

Want to make your DITA authoring experience even better?

This is the second of a series of webinars geared towards helping you to get the most out of your overall DITA experience with the help of Oxygen. This particular webinar will cover some of the most important concepts of DITA: profiling and content references. Learn the benefits of knowing how to reuse and profile content in your documents, and how easy it is to do this in Oxygen.

In this webinar, you will learn the following:

• How to filter content in the published output using profiling attributes. This allows you to obtain various outputs from the same documentation source
• How to combine more profiling attributes in condition sets.
• How to apply DITAVAL filters in Oxygen.
• Various strategies and best practices for reusing DITA content in Oxygen.

If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of your new year's resolutions, then you're in luck! In this third webinar about working with DITA in Oxygen, we will help you achieve just that.

This webinar will cover more advanced DITA concepts, such as:

• Conref ranges - easily create content references to ranges of adjacent (sibling) elements.
• Conref push - an alternate way of creating content references, by injecting element values from the source element into a topic where it is to be re-used.
• Subject scheme maps - create custom controlled values and manage metadata attribute values for an organization or a project without having to write a DITA specialization.
• Profiling attribute groups - used to support situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories.
• Key scopes - specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches.
• Branch filtering - set filtering conditions for specific branches of a map.

We all like custom products and most of the time we invest extra time and energy into customizing our tools to better fit our specific needs and preferences.

In this fourth episode of our Working with DITA in Oxygen series, we will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of:

• Author actions - edit existing actions, remove actions or add new ones. Add actions to the main toolbar, the contextual menu, or the content completion window.
• The Author-mode rendering - tailor the visuals of the editing experience using CSS and add in-place actions directly in the Author page.
• Document validation - create new validation rules and provide quick fixes using Schematron.
• The content-completion assistant - automatically insert or reject elements, attributes, and values.
• New document templates - add prefixes or suffixes to the names of your new documents, customize the template icons, mark templates as popular

Oxygen XML Editor provides the ability to organize your DITA resources in projects. The DITA Sample Project is a best practice example that shows how DITA content can be organized to provide a scalable and flexible project structure.

With this in mind, during the course of this extensive online event, we will go over:

• the DITA Project structure
• using the Main files support to rename or move DITA resources
• creating a unified editing experience through project level settings
• spell check and terminology check project settings
• sharing a framework customization in the project
• sharing a publishing template in the project

From experience, most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have the content written in various other formats and they need that content converted to DITA. But once the content is converted, there is still work to be done. It also needs to be refactored to respect various DITA best practices.

To show you how this process can be made as simple as possible, in this webinar, we will cover the following topics:

• How to use the batch documents converter and smart paste for converting content
• How to use the Main Files Support for refactoring across the entire project