DITA Language Specification v1.1
Committee Draft 02
8 May 2007
This Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD02/langspec/ditaref-type.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD02/langspec/ditaref-type.pdf
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD02/langspec/langspec.zip (DITA source; see ditaref-type.ditamap)
Previous Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/langspec/ditaref-type.toc.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/dita-v1.0-spec-os-LanguageSpecification.pdf
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http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD02/langspec/ditaref-type.pdf
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD02/langspec/langspec.zip (DITA source; see ditaref-type.ditamap)
Technical Committee:
OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC
Chair(s):
Don Day
Editor(s):
Michael Priestley
Robert D. Anderson
JoAnn Hackos
Related Work:
This specification replaces or supercedes:
This specification is related to:
Declared XML Namespace(s):
[none]Abstract:
The DITA 1.1 Language Specification describes each element in version 1.1 of the DITA Standard.
Status:
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Topic elements
2.01 topic
2.02 title
2.03 titlealts
2.04 navtitle
2.05 searchtitle
2.06 abstract
2.07 shortdesc
2.08 body
2.09 section
2.10 example
2.11 related-links
3.0 Concept elements
3.01 concept
3.02 conbody
4.01 reference
4.02 refbody
4.03 refsyn
4.04 properties
4.05 prophead
4.06 proptypehd
4.07 propvaluehd
4.08 propdeschd
4.09 property
4.10 proptype
4.11 propvalue
4.12 propdesc
5.0 Task elements
5.01 task
5.02 taskbody
5.03 prereq
5.04 context
5.05 steps
5.06 steps-unordered
5.07 step
5.08 cmd
5.09 info
5.10 substeps
5.11 substep
5.12 stepxmp
5.13 choicetable
5.14 chhead
5.15 choptionhd
5.16 chdeschd
5.17 chrow
5.18 choption
5.19 chdesc
5.20 choices
5.21 choice
5.22 stepresult
5.23 tutorialinfo
5.24 result
5.25 postreq
6.01 glossentry
6.02 glossdef
6.03 glossterm
7.0 Body elements
7.01 p
7.02 note
7.03 ph
7.04 keyword
7.05 xref
7.06 ol
7.07 ul
7.08 li
7.09 sl
7.10 sli
7.11 dl
7.12 dlhead
7.13 dthd
7.14 ddhd
7.15 dlentry
7.16 dt
7.17 dd
7.18 fig
7.19 figgroup
7.20 desc
7.21 image
7.22 alt
7.23 object
7.24 param
7.25 pre
7.26 lines
7.27 cite
7.28 lq
7.29 q
8.0 Table elements
8.01 table
8.02 tgroup
8.03 colspec
8.04 thead
8.05 tbody
8.06 row
8.07 entry
8.08 simpletable
8.09 sthead
8.10 strow
8.11 stentry
9.0 Prolog elements
9.01 prolog
9.02 audience
9.03 author
9.04 brand
9.05 category
9.06 component
9.07 copyright
9.08 copyrholder
9.09 copyryear
9.10 created
9.11 critdates
9.12 featnum
9.13 keywords
9.14 metadata
9.15 othermeta
9.16 permissions
9.17 platform
9.18 prodinfo
9.19 prodname
9.20 prognum
9.21 publisher
9.22 resourceid
9.23 revised
9.24 series
9.25 source
9.26 vrmlist
9.27 vrm
10.01 link
10.02 linklist
10.03 linkpool
10.04 linktext
10.05 linkinfo
11.01 dita
11.02 draft-comment
11.03 fn
11.04 indexterm
11.05 indextermref
11.06 index-base
11.07 tm
11.08 data-about
11.09 data
11.10 foreign
11.11 unknown
12.01 itemgroup
12.02 no-topic-nesting
12.03 required-cleanup
12.04 state
12.05 term
12.06 boolean
13.0 Typographic elements
13.01 b
13.02 i
13.03 u
13.04 tt
13.05 sup
13.06 sub
14.0 Programming elements
14.01 apiname
14.02 codeblock
14.03 codeph
14.04 option
14.05 parmname
14.06 parml
14.07 plentry
14.08 pt
14.09 pd
14.10 synph
14.11 syntaxdiagram
14.12 groupseq
14.13 groupchoice
14.14 groupcomp
14.15 fragment
14.16 fragref
14.17 synblk
14.18 synnote
14.19 synnoteref
14.20 kwd
14.21 var
14.22 oper
14.23 delim
14.24 sep
14.25 repsep
15.0 Software elements
15.01 msgph
15.02 msgblock
15.03 msgnum
15.04 cmdname
15.05 varname
15.06 filepath
15.07 userinput
15.08 systemoutput
16.01 uicontrol
16.02 wintitle
16.03 menucascade
16.04 shortcut
16.05 screen
17.0 Utilities elements
17.01 imagemap
17.02 area
17.03 coords
17.04 shape
18.01 index-see
18.02 index-see-also
18.03 index-sort-as
19.0 Map elements
19.01 map
19.02 anchor
19.03 navref
19.04 reltable
19.05 relrow
19.06 relcell
19.07 relheader
19.08 relcolspec
19.09 topicmeta
19.10 topicref
20.0 Map group elements
20.01 topicgroup
20.02 topichead
21.01 bookmap
21.02 abbrevlist
21.03 amendments
21.04 appendix
21.05 backmatter
21.06 bibliolist
21.07 bookabstract
21.08 booklibrary
21.09 booklist
21.10 booklists
21.11 booktitle
21.12 booktitlealt
21.13 chapter
21.14 colophon
21.15 dedication
21.16 draftintro
21.17 figurelist
21.18 frontmatter
21.19 glossarylist
21.20 indexlist
21.21 mainbooktitle
21.22 notices
21.23 part
21.24 preface
21.25 tablelist
21.26 toc
21.27 trademarklist
22.0 Bookmap metadata elements
22.01 bookmeta
22.02 approved
22.03 bookchangehistory
22.04 bookevent
22.05 bookeventtype
22.06 bookid
22.07 booknumber
22.08 bookowner
22.09 bookpartno
22.10 bookrestriction
22.11 bookrights
22.12 completed
22.13 copyrfirst
22.14 copyrlast
22.15 day
22.16 edited
22.17 edition
22.18 isbn
22.19 maintainer
22.20 month
22.21 organization
22.22 person
22.23 printlocation
22.24 published
22.25 publisherinformation
22.26 publishtype
22.27 reviewed
22.28 revisionid
22.29 started
22.30 summary
22.31 tested
22.32 volume
22.33 year
23.0 xNAL domain elements
23.01 xNAL usage guidelines
23.02 authorinformation
23.03 addressdetails
23.04 administrativearea
23.05 contactnumber
23.06 contactnumbers
23.07 country
23.08 emailaddress
23.09 emailaddresses
23.10 firstname
23.11 generationidentifier
23.12 honorific
23.13 lastname
23.14 locality
23.15 localityname
23.16 middlename
23.17 namedetails
23.18 organizationinfo
23.19 organizationname
23.20 organizationnamedetails
23.21 otherinfo
23.22 personinfo
23.23 personname
23.24 postalcode
23.25 thoroughfare
23.26 url
23.27 urls
24.0 DITAVAL elements
24.01 val
24.02 style-conflict
24.03 prop
24.04 revprop
24.05 startflag
24.06 endflag
24.07 alt-text
25.0 Commonly referenced attributes
25.01 %display-atts;
25.02 %global-atts;
25.03 %id-atts;
25.04 %rel-atts;
25.05 %select-atts;
25.06 %localization-atts;
25.07 %univ-atts;
25.08 %topicref-atts; and %topicref-atts-no-toc;
25.09 Other common DITA attributes
25.10 Complex attribute definitions
25.10.01 The conref attribute
25.10.01.01 Using the -dita-use-conref-target value
25.10.02 The type attribute
25.10.03 The format attribute
25.10.04 The role attribute
26.0 Alphabetical listing of DITA elements