Diff for Working with maps

--- Fri, 2006-02-10 21:29 by Michael Priestley
+++ Fri, 2006-02-10 21:31 by Bruce Esrig
-<p>Maps organize topics for output to a specific deliverable, including generating navigation files and links to related topics.</p>
+<p>DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can be used to identify the topics you want to include in a deliverable, and to create tables of contents and related links for the information. </p>
-<p>DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can also serve as outlines or tables of contents for DITA deliverables and as build manifests for DITA projects.</p>
+<p>Maps can organize topics into hierarchies, tables, and groups, and also have special elements for referencing other maps. You can use multiple maps to pull different deliverables out of the same set of topics, and to separate the concerns of managing deliverables and architecting information from the concerns of topic authoring. </p>
-<p>Maps allow scalable reuse of content across multiple contexts. They can be used by information architects, writers, and publishers to plan, develop, and deliver content.</p>
-<p>DITA maps have many of the same common attributes as DITA content, but also have some additional ones for controlling the way relationships are interpreted for different output purposes.</p>
 <p>The architectural specification describes DITA maps and relationship tables at</p>
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-    <li><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html">http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html</a>.</font></li>
+    <li><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html">http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html</a>.</font> </li>
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Revision of Fri, 2006-02-10 21:31:

DITA Maps

DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can be used to identify the topics you want to include in a deliverable, and to create tables of contents and related links for the information.

Maps can organize topics into hierarchies, tables, and groups, and also have special elements for referencing other maps. You can use multiple maps to pull different deliverables out of the same set of topics, and to separate the concerns of managing deliverables and architecting information from the concerns of topic authoring.

The architectural specification describes DITA maps and relationship tables at