Building the Information Community

Join CIDM members and colleagues at the 9th Annual Best Practices Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on September 17-19, 2007. At the premier industry conference for publication managers, learn how your colleagues are promoting and implementing innovative best practices.

Applicable to both FrameMaker 7.2 and FrameMaker 8.0
To convert to and from DITA correctly you need to manage read and write rules. Learn about issues that arise when converting content to and from DITA and how to minimize problems. Acquire hands–on experience in the development of rules to correctly convert content to and from DITA including cross–references, tables, images, conditional content and more.

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The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an information architecture for authoring, managing, and publishing topic-oriented content. Organizations around the world are finding that DITA provides an appealing option for obtaining the benefits of XML publishing. But switching to topic-based writing requires authors to apply new tools and techniques that can be daunting for those unfamiliar with using topics and infomation types to create structured, reusable content.