Schedule - Spring 2016

Week

Topics

Reading / Assignments

Week 1: Jan.  19

Introduction

• Reading: Introduction to XML
• Post introduction to the Discussion group in Blackboard
• Exercise  1 – Creating a well-formed XML document  (due Jan. 24)

Week  2: Jan. 25

Working with XML documents

• Reading: Elements and Attributes
• Exercise  2 – Creating an XML  résumé (due Jan. 31)
• Start Project 1

Week 3: Feb. 1

Putting the structure in structured authoring

• Reading: DTDs
• Exercise 3 – Defining a résumé Dtd (due Feb. 7)

Week 4: Feb. 8

Turning structure into web output

• Reading: Introduction to XSLT
• Start Exercise 4 - Creating web output for the résumé using XSLT

Week 5: Feb.15

Introducing entities

• Reading: Entities and CSS
• Finish Exercise 4 – Creating web output for the résumé using XSLT (due Feb. 21)

Week 6: Feb. 22

Turning structure into PDF output

• Reading: Introduction to XSLT-FO
• Exercise 5 – Creating PDF output for the résumé using XSLT (due Feb. 28)
• Project 1 checkpoint (due Feb. 28)

Week  7: Feb. 29

Q&A about Project 1

• Work on Project 1

Week  8: Mar. 7

Introducing DITA

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 1
• Reading: Introduction to DITA
• Complete Project 1 (due Mar. 13)

Spring Break: Mar.14

None

• No assignments

Week  9: Mar. 21

Working with DITA task and concept topics

• Complete quiz 1 (due Mar. 27)
• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 2 and 3
• Reading: DITA Tasks and Concepts
• Exercise 6 – Creating DITA task and concept  topics (due Mar. 27)
• Start Project 2

Week  10: Mar. 28

Working with DITA reference topics and short descriptions

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 4 and 5
• Reading: DITA Reference and Short Description
• Exercise 7 – Creating DITA reference topics (due Apr. 3)

Week  11: Apr. 4

Organizing content into deliverables

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 6
• Reading: DITA Maps
• Exercise 8 – Creating maps and relationship tables (due Apr. 10)

Week  12: Apr. 11

Creating cross-references in DITA

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 7
• Reading: Linking within DITA
• Exercise 9 – Working with links (due Apr. 17)

Week  13: Apr. 18

Single sourcing

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 8 and 9
• Reading: DITA and Reuse
• Checkpoint for Project 2 (due Apr.24)
• Start  Exercise 10 – Reusing content

Week  14: Apr. 25

Reusing content

• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 10
• Continue Exercise 10 – Reusing content  (due May 1)

Week  15: May 2

Q&A about Project 2

• Project 2 due (May 8)

Week  16: May 9

Wrap up

• Quiz 2 due (May 13)