White paper from the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Tony Self. Published 16 December 2009

Improved glossary and terminology handling

DITA 1.2 introduces significant improvements to the way in which terminology is handled. A new glossary entry element provides a flexible semantic structure to store terminology information, and the new indirect linking functionality allows terms occurring in the content to be linked through a key reference or transcluded using a new abbreviated-form element. Keys used for key referencing are defined in a new glossref specialisation of topicref in the map.

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You can download the white paper from the Document Repository for the OASIS DITA Adoption TC.