Hi all, Comtech Services, the company that organizes the DITA North America and DITA Europe conferences organizes also a number of DITA workshops and they use oXygen XML Editor to complete the different exercises, so these workshops may be a good opportunity to learn DITA and the oXygen DITA functionality. Here it is a description from Comtech Services of available workshops: *** DITA Getting Started: July 21-22 in Wakefield, MA This workshop is designed as an introduction to Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). During the workshop you will learn to design and create information using a topic/task-based structured-authoring approach. You will also learn how to use XML markup with DITA elements and the importance of the DITA elements to information development. Optimizing the DITA Authoring Experience: July 23-24 in Wakefield, MA In this workshop, you are guided through the process of customizing your authoring environment using each of the following technologies: shells, specializations, constraints, templates, subject scheme maps, and publishing scenarios. With ample time for applying what you have learned, you will leave the workshop with the necessary tools to optimize the authoring experience for your authoring team. Advanced Publishing for DITA: August 3-7 in San Jose, CA In this workshop, attendees are provided a walk-through of the essential DITA fundamentals, programming skills, and DITA Open Toolkit configurations required to assemble, style, and publish DITA XML source. After a brief overview of the DITA framework, course lectures and exercises will focus on the key pieces of a DITA publishing architecture, how to set it up, and how to optimize its publishing capabilities using customizations and plug-ins. Attendees will learn to set up a publishing architecture using the pipeline provided by the DITA-OT and learn how to configure and debug the DITA-OT. For more information visit Comtech Services web site at http://comtech-serv.com/url/upcoming or contact Comtach Services at 303-232-7586. *** Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com