Portfolio > Writing and Editing > Structured Authoring

Project Overview

The goal of this project was to familiarize myself with DITA, topic-based authoring, and single sourcing. I developed a small knowledge base by creating a few XML source files and used XSLT and CSS to create an output for the web.

   Skills

• Topic-Based Authoring

• Single Sourcing

• Information Design

• Information Architecture

• Technical Writing

   Tools

• XML

• XSLT

• CSS

The Process

XML Source File

The XML source file (left) contains my concept article entry. I chose reusable tags like introduction, submission item, and conclusion for reuse throughout all the database entries.

XSLT Source File

The XSLT code (right) pulls data from the XML source file and transforms it into HTML.

CSS File

The Product