topic

The <topic> element is the top-level DITA element for a single-subject topic or article. Other top-level DITA elements that are more content-specific are <concept>, <task>, <reference>, and <glossary>.

To support applications that are namespace-aware, DITA DTDs and Schemas provide the following fixed namespaced declarations for topic, and for topic-level elements derived from topic:
ditaarch:DITAArchVersion="1.0" 
xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/" 
In DTDs, the "ditaarch" prefix is parameterized to enable future specialization.

Example

<topic id="topic">
 <title>Some little topic</title>
 <body>
  <p>Here's a <b><i>cute</i></b>,
  <b>little</b> topic.</p>
  <ul>
   <li>Some item</li>
   <li>Another item</li>
  </ul>
 </body>
</topic>

Contains

Doctype Content model
ditabase ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic or concept or task or reference or glossentry) (any number) )
topic ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic) (any number) )
task ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic) (any number) )
reference ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic) (any number) )
concept ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic) (any number) )
glossary ( ( title) then ( titlealts) (optional) then ( shortdesc or abstract) (optional) then ( prolog) (optional) then ( body) (optional) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( topic) (any number) )

Contained by

Doctype Parents
ditabase dita, topic, concept, task, reference
topic topic
task topic
concept topic
reference topic
glossary topic, concept

Inheritance:

- topic/topic

Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
id This ID enables topics to be referenced uniquely by topicrefs in DITA maps. ID Yes
conref This attribute is used to reference an ID on a topic that can be reused. See The conref attribute for examples and details about the syntax. CDATA #IMPLIED No
xmlns:ditaarch Declares the default DITA namespace. CDATA #FIXED http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/  
DITAArchVersion Designates the version of the architecture that is in use. CDATA "1.1" (version dependent; will increase) No
domains Indicates the specialized domains that are included in the DTD or Schema. CDATA (topic ui-d) (topic hi-d) (topic pr-d) (topic sw-d) (topic ut-d) (topic indexing-d) No
%select-atts; (props, base, platform, product, audience, otherprops, importance, rev, status) A set of related attributes, described at %select-atts; parameter entity PE not applicable Not applicable
%localization-atts; (translate, xml:lang, dir) A set of related attributes, described at %localization-atts;. parameter entity PE not applicable Not applicable
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; parameter entity PE not applicable Not applicable
class, outputclass Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes.      

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