keywords

The <keywords> element contains a list of key words (using <indexterm> or <keyword> markup) that can be used by a search engine.

When DITA topics are output to XHTML, any <keyword> or <indexterm> elements in the <keywords> element are placed in the Web page metadata. The index terms in this context are also included in any generated index.

Example

The following example is metadata from an installation task:

<prolog>
 <keywords>
  <keyword>installing</keyword>
  <keyword>uninstalling</keyword>
  <keyword>prerequisites</keyword> 
  <keyword>helps</keyword>
  <keyword>wizards</keyword>
 </keywords>
</prolog>

Contains

Doctype Content model
ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept ( indexterm or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle) (any number)
map, bookmap ( indexterm or keyword) (any number)

Contained by

Doctype Parents
ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference metadata
bookmap topicmeta, bookmeta
map topicmeta

Inheritance:

- topic/keywords

Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
%univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;) A set of related attributes, described at %univ-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 Common attribute described in Other common DITA attributes.      

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OASIS DITA Language Specification v1.1 -- Committee Draft 02, 8 May 2007
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