Editing DITA Map Specializations
In addition to recognizing the default DITA map formats (map
and
bookmap
), the DITA Maps Manager view can also be
used to open and edit specializations of DITA maps.
All advanced edit actions available for the map (such as insertion of topic refs, heads, properties editing) allow you to specify the element in an editable combo box. Moreover the elements that appear initially in the combo are all the elements that are allowed to appear at the insert position for the given specialization.
The topic titles rendered in the DITA Maps Manager view are collected
from the target files by matching the class
attribute and not a specific
element name.
When editing DITA specializations of maps in the main editor the insertions of topic reference, topic heading, topic group and conref actions should work without modification. For the table actions, you have to modify each action manually to insert the correct element name at cursor position. You can go to the DITA Map document type from the Document Type Association preferences page and edit the table actions to insert the element names as specified in your specialization. See Adding or Editing a Document Type Association (Framework) for more details.