Introduction to DITA Posted on 07.17.15 This six-lesson course will get you started with the basics of DITA. Course Content Expand All | Collapse All Lessons Status 1 Lesson 1: What is DITA? Markup languages DITA is structured authoring What is a DITA topic? 2 Lesson 2: DITA topics The generic topic type Concept topics Task topics Reference topics Glossary entry topics Specialization 3 Lesson 3: Metadata What is metadata? How do you use metadata? 4 Lesson 4: Creating DITA content Creating a topic in a text editor Creating a topic in oXygen Notes, cautions, and warnings Bulleted and numbered lists Block versus inline elements 5 Lesson 5: Tables The simpletable elements The table element Best practices for tables 6 Lesson 6: Creating relationships among topics Map files Transforming map files into outputs Cross-references Related links Relationship tables Reusing content with conrefs