
Discover why reusing content in DITA XML boosts traceability, reduces translation costs, and ensures consistent, personalized documentation across guides, while avoiding overengineering for scalable maintainability.
Learn how to access the Oxygen website, choose the correct Oxygen XML Author version, download and install it, and register a 40-day trial license to set up your development environment.
Learn how to reuse content across DITA maps by creating data maps, sections, and topics, then reference one map within another to build modular, collaborative user guides.
Reuse topic elements across dita topics to achieve granular content reuse, enabling you to pull specific paragraphs and elements like product name definitions into other topic contexts.
Push content from a source topic into a target topic in the data ximo environment, enabling reuse and external injection into a dedicated topic with DRM support.
Showcases pushing content from a source topic into a target topic to replace an element, using a data map and a pdf output to verify results.
Explore how to push content after a target element in dita xml by applying the common action attribute twice and marking the location to point to the topic element.
What are the benefits of writing in DITA XML for a technical writer? Do you want to learn how to reuse the content in DITA to save time and effort on the authors' side?
If yes, this course is for you!
In the first hour of this course, you will learn:
Which are the different levels on which you can reuse the content in DITA XML.
Watch demos and perform exercises on how to pull content for reuse on each level of reuse - of DITA maps, topics, topic elements, and table rows (between tables).
In the second hour of the course, you will learn:
A feature that very few DITA technical writers understand and apply properly - how to push (that is, to take content from one topic and insert this content into another topic at DITA XML transformation time!).
Watch demos and perform exercises on each level of push type of reuse - with the goal to insert content before an element, after an element, or even to completely replace a topic element from the outside!
The course instructor, Jordan Stanchev, is a User Assistance Development Architect, working at a Fortune 500 company! He has vast experience in adopting DITA and is the creator of best-seller courses on writing using DITA XML.