attributedef
The <attributedef> element specifies
the attribute to which a set of controlled values from a subject scheme
map are to be applied.
Contains
Note
These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS.
Actual content models will differ with each new document type.
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| subjectScheme | ( (data or data-about) (any number) ) |
Contained by
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| subjectScheme | enumerationdef |
Inheritance
- topic/data subjectScheme/attributedef
Example
In this example, enumerations are specified for the platform and otherprops attributes. Note that the enumeration identifies a category of values; the values within the category are valid, while the category itself is not a valid value. For example, in the code sample here, the platform attribute is associated with the enumeration for the category "os"; all values within the "os" category are thus valid on the platform attribute, while the value "os" itself is not.
<subjectScheme>
<!-- Pull in a scheme that defines unix OS values -->
<schemeref href="unixOS.ditamap"/>
<!-- Define new OS values that are merged with those in the unixOS scheme -->
<subjectdef keys="os">
<subjectdef keys="linux"/>
<subjectdef keys="mswin"/>
<subjectdef keys="zos"/>
</subjectdef>
<!-- Define application values -->
<subjectdef keys="app" navtitle="Applications">
<subjectdef keys="apacheserv" href="subject/apache.dita"/>
<subjectdef keys="mysql" href="subject/sql.dita"/>
</subjectdef>
<!-- Define an enumeration of the platform attribute, equal to
each value in the OS subject. This makes the following values
valid for the platform attribute: linux, mswin, zos -->
<enumerationdef>
<attributedef name="platform"/>
<subjectdef keyref="os"/>
</enumerationdef>
<!-- Define an enumeration of the otherprops attribute, equal to
each value in the application subjects.
This makes the following values valid for the otherprops attribute:
apacheserv, mysql -->
<enumerationdef>
<attributedef name="otherprops"/>
<subjectdef keyref="app"/>
</enumerationdef>
</subjectScheme>Attributes
| Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Defines an attribute that will take a set of enumerated values. | CDATA | #REQUIRED | Yes |
| id-atts attribute group (id, conref, conrefend, conaction, conkeyref) | A set of related attributes, described in id-atts attribute group | |||
| status | The modification status of the current element. | new | changed | deleted | unchanged | -dita-use-conref-target | #IMPLIED | No |
| translate | Indicates whether the content of the element should be translated or not. The DITA architectural specification contains a list of each OASIS DITA element and its common processing default for the translate value. | yes | no | -dita-use-conref-target | #IMPLIED | No |
| base | A generic attribute that has no specific purpose. It is intended to act as a base for specialized attributes that have a simple value syntax like the conditional processing attributes (one or more alphanumeric values separated by whitespace), but is not itself a filtering or flagging attribute. The attribute takes a space-delimited set of values. However, when acting as a container for generalized attributes, the content model will be more complex; see Attribute generalization for more details. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group | |||
| class, outputclass | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |