DITA Architectural Specification v1.1
Committee Draft
13 February 2007
This Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.pdf
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.zip (DITA source; see archspec.ditamap)
Previous Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/ditaspec.toc.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/dita-v1.0-spec-os-ArchitecturalSpecification.pdf
Latest Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.pdf
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.zip (DITA source; see archspec.ditamap)
Technical Committee:
OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC
Chair(s):
Don Day
Editor(s):
Michael Priestley and JoAnn Hackos
Related Work:
This specification replaces or supercedes:
This specification is related to:
Declared XML Namespace(s):
[none]
Abstract:
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) 1.1 specification defines both a) a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information; and b) a set of mechanisms for combining and extending document types using a process called specialization.
Status:
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Table of Contents
1.0 About the DITA 1.1 Specification
2.1 Definitions and background concepts
2.1.1 Basic concepts
2.1.2 Terminology
2.2 Naming conventions and file extensions
2.3 DTD organization
3.0 DITA markup
3.1 DITA topics
3.1.1 What are topics?
3.1.2 Why topics?
3.1.3 Information typing
3.1.4 Transitional text
3.1.5 Generic topics
3.1.5.1 Topic structure
3.1.5.2 Topic content
3.1.5.3 Topic modules
3.1.6 Concepts
3.1.7 Tasks
3.1.8 Reference
3.1.9 Glossary
3.1.10 Topic domains
3.2 DITA maps
3.2.1 What are maps?
3.2.2 Why DITA maps?
3.2.3 Common DITA map attributes and metadata
3.2.4 DITA map structure
3.2.5 DITA map modules
3.2.6 Inheritance of attributes and metadata in maps
3.2.7 Bookmap
3.2.8 Map domains
3.2.8.1 The xNAL domain
3.3 Metadata elements and common attributes
3.3.1 Common metadata elements
3.3.1.1 Publication metadata elements
3.3.1.2 Management metadata elements
3.3.1.3 Metadata qualification elements
3.3.2 Common attributes
3.3.2.1 Identifier and content referencing attributes
3.3.2.2 Metadata attributes
3.3.2.3 Miscellaneous Attributes
3.3.2.4 Architectural attributes
3.3.3 Topic properties in topics and maps
3.3.3.1 Metadata inheritance between maps and topics
4.0 DITA processing
4.3 Content inclusion (conref)
4.4 Conditional processing (profiling)
4.5 Chunking
4.6 Translation
4.6.1 The xml:lang attribute
4.6.2 The dir attribute
4.6.3 All elements with translation properties
5.3 Structural versus domain specialization
5.4 Specializing foreign or unknown content
5.7.1 Why specialization in content?
5.7.2 Specialization of attributes
5.7.3 The class attribute
5.7.4 Class attribute syntax
5.7.5 The domains attribute
5.7.6 Specialization validity
5.7.7 Generalization
5.7.7.1 Attribute generalization
5.7.7.2 Foreign generalization
5.8.1 Why specialization in design?
5.8.2 Modularization and integration of design
5.8.3 Integration
5.8.4 Modularization in DTDs
5.8.5 Modularization in schemas
5.9 Specialization in processing
5.9.1 Using the class attribute
5.9.2 Processing specialized attributes
5.9.3 Processing foreign content
5.9.4 Modularization and integration of processing
5.9.5 Customization
5.9.6 Modularization in CSS
5.9.7 Modularization in XSLT