2.2 Architectural Specification: Technical Content Version

Previously, the document types and specializations for technical content were included as an integral part of the base DITA specification. With the release of DITA 1.2 and the increasingly number of specializations that are part of the DITA specification, the document types and specializations for technical content have a dedicated section in the DITA specification.

2.2.1 Overview of the DITA 1.2 Specification: Technical Content
This section describes the DITA document types and specializations for technical content.
2.2.2 Technical content: Document and information types
The Technical Content package contains five topic specializations that support seven document types: concept, reference, general task, strict task, machinery task, glossary entry, and glossary group. These topic types are specialized from the base topic and are designed specifically for information that describes how to use products and processes they are dominated by procedural, task-oriented information. The Technical Content package also includes the map document type.
2.2.3 Topic domains: Technical content
A DITA domain defines a set of elements associated with a particular subject area or authoring requirement. DITA incorporates several domains into the Technical Content specializations. Other domains are incorporated into basic DITA.
2.2.4 The xNAL domain
The DITA xNAL domain specialization defines a number of metadata elements and attributes that are useful in representing personal/organizational names and addresses. The metadata can be used to identify authors and content owners. The OASIS xNAL Standard (extensible Name and Address Langauge) was selected to represent close mappings from the DITA bookmap metadata content model to an existing standard. xNAL is included in the Bookmap and the LearningBookmap document types.

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