In this scenario, authors collaborate on a publication that includes content for a product that is in the early stages of development. The company documentation is highly-structured and uses the same organization for all publications: "Introduction," "Example," and "Reference."
Author one creates a submap for the new product information. She knows the structure that the final content will have, but she does not want to create empty topics for information that is not yet available. She decides to initially author what content is available in a single topic. When more content is available, she'll create additional topics. Her DITA map looks like the following:
Author two knows that he needs to add a
His topic reference initially resolves to the
Author one finally gets the information that she was waiting on. She creates additional topics and modifies her DITA map as follows:
Without needing to make any changes to the content, author two's topic reference now resolves
to the