DITA Topics Document Type
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. It divides content into small, self-contained topics that you can reuse in various deliverables. The extensibility of DITA permits organizations to define specific information structures while still using standard tools to work with them. DITA content is created as topics, each an individual XML file. Typically, each topic has a defined primary objective and structure, and DITA also includes several specialized topic types (task, concept, reference, glossary entry).
File Definition
A file is considered to be a DITA topic document when one of the following conditions are true:
- The root element name is one of the following:
concept,task,reference,dita, ortopic. - The PUBLIC ID of the document is a PUBLIC ID for the elements listed above.
- The root element of the file has an attribute named
DITAArchVersionfor thehttp://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/
namespace. This enhanced case of matching is only applied when the Enable DTD/XML Schema processing in document type detection option is enabled from the Document Type Association preferences page.
Default Document Templates
There are a variety of default DITA topic templates available when creating new documents from templates, including Concept, Gossentry, Reference, Task, Topic, and many more.
The default templates for DITA topic documents are located in the [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/dita/templates/topic folder.
Default Schema
Default schemas that are used if one is not detected in the DITA documents are stored
in
the various folders inside DITA_OT_DIR/dtd/
or DITA_OT_DIR/schema/.
Default CSS
The default CSS files used for rendering DITA content in Author mode
are stored in the various folders inside: [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/dita/css/.
By default, these default CSS files are merged with any that are specified in the document. For more information, see Selecting and Combining Multiple CSS Styles.
Default XML Catalogs
The default catalogs for the DITA topic document type are as follows:
DITA_OT_DIR/catalog-dita.xml[OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/dita/catalog.xml[OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/dita/plugin/catalog.xml[OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/dita/styleguide/catalog.xml
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