### 15.1.2 Understanding what you need to know about DITA

To use Mif2Go effectively to produce DITA output, you need a basic knowledge of DITA, from study of other materials. Teaching our customers DITA is beyond the scope of the Mif2Go User's Guide. You have to know what you want; then perhaps we can tell you how to make it happen with Mif2Go.

If you are not familiar with DITA, here are some good starting points and reference sites:

IBM Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/index.html

Online community for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture OASIS Standard:

http://dita.xml.org/

OASIS DITA Architectural Specification:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/overview/overview.html

Cover pages on DITA:

http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html

DITA World Comprehensive List of DITA Resources:

http://www.ditaworld.com/

On-line DITA lists:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/framemaker-dita/

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/

Comtech Services book, available at http://www.comtech-serv.com/dita.shtml#book:

Linton, Jen and Bruski, Kylene (2006). Introduction to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. Denver, CO: Comtech Services

| 15.1.1 Understanding the complexity of a DITA conversion project |  | 15.1.3 Clarifying your purpose for creating DITA output |