Archive - 2007

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New and improved wiki for dita.xml.org is under construction

Hi everyone. We are in the process of migrating some content from the Knowledge Base area of the site to the wiki area of the site.  Please bear with us as there will be some glitches and duplicated content for a short time. 

 

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How can I combine several topics into a single document?

The DITA design has a unified content reuse mechanism by which an element can replace itself with the content of a like element elsewhere, either in the current topic or in a separate topic that shares the same content models. The distinction between reusable content and reusing content, often a problem for authors trying to use file and text entities, disappears: Any element with an ID, in any DITA topic, is reusable by conref.

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What if my information doesn't break down into topics?

Most information can be broken down into topics (headings and content). However, if your information requires a more seamless flow of information across topic boundaries, don't use this architecture.

When should I specialize?

Create specialized topics when you have a restrictive category of topics that you want to keep consistent and that your users want to distinguish from other categories. Create specialized domains when you have a set of elements that you want available across several of your topic types. Be sure to specialize from the correct base: For example, categories of reference topics should specialize <reference>, categories of tasks should specialize <task>, and domain types should always specialize either <topic> or another domain type.

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