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DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA
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DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA

by Laura Bellamy, Michelle Carey, Jenifer Schlotfeldt
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 43m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA

Part III: Converting and Editing

11 Converting Content to DITA

12 DITA Code Editing

13 Content Editing

When you choose to adopt DITA, the conversion process can be a big, but wise, investment. Before you decide to convert your content to DITA, you need a few DITA experts on your team, so be sure that your experts are knowledgeable about topic-based information, DITA maps, and linking.

Chapter 11 provides tips and guidelines to help you convert your information to DITA. Use this information to help plan and complete the conversion process.

After you convert your content to DITA or if you’ve been writing in DITA for years, you need to ensure that your content is of the highest quality. We recommend that you edit not only your content, but also ...

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