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Resources for learning DITA with Oxygen

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From time to time we get requests from beginners or from users migrating from other tools who want to start using Oxygen with DITA and they need to know a set of useful resources.

Resources for editing DITA with Oxygen:

We have a getting started section in our user's manual: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/eppo-first-dita-topic.html and a larger section on DITA authoring: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/author-dita.html.

We have a list of videos, some of them DITA-related here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/videos.html and a series of past webinar recordings about editing DITA with Oxygen.
Getting Started with Oxygen and DITA
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2020/webinar_getting_started_with_dita_using_oxygen_xml_editor.html
Basic DITA Profiling and Reuse
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2020/webinar_working_with_dita_in_oxygen.html
Advanced DITA Profiling and Reuse
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2021/webinar_working_with_dita_in_oxygen_advanced_profiling_and_reuse_strategies.html
Working with DITA in Oxygen - Customizing the Editing Experience
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2021/webinar_working_with_dita_in_oxygen_customizing_the_editing_experience.html
Working with DITA in Oxygen - Quick start with the DITA Startup Project
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2021/webinar_working_with_dita_in_oxygen_startup_project.html
Working with DITA in Oxygen - Migrating to DITA and Refactoring
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2021/webinar_working_with_dita_in_oxygen_migrating_to_dita_and_refactoring.html
All these webinars above are also listed here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/working_with_dita_in_oxygen.html.

Resources for learning DITA:

If you want to start learning about DITA in general there is a web site called Learning DITA.

DITA Introduction articles by Stefan Jung.

The free Oxygen Live Tutorials add-on contains various small tutorials for learning DITA.

The DITA 1.3 standard specification can be found here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/#introduction/dita-release-overview.html.

There are also a number of good books like DITA For Practitioners and the DITA Style Guide.

Resources for customizing the DITA output formats

Usually customizing the XHTML based outputs means creating your custom CSS selectors. If you generate WebHelp output using Oxygen, we have a section explaining basic WebHelp customizations.

For PDF-based outputs we recommend, support and maintain our CSS-based PDF publishing which is free to use from Oxygen XML Editor. There are also a number of different choices to obtain PDF from DITA: Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA.

We have a series of past webinar recordings about customizing the published output:And if you are interested in server side building and publishing this topic might be useful:Server Side Building and Publishing.

Courses for learning DITA with Oxygen XML Editor

DITA Trivia

There are a number of blogs on which you can read various DITA-related articles:

Community

The DITA Users List is probably the first place where you can register and ask for help with DITA-related issues. A bunch of other community support forums for the publishing engine are also listed here: https://www.dita-ot.org/support.

There is also a DITA Awareness Group on Linked In.