DITA

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OASIS TC

Cover page information
Notices
Introduction
DITA terminology, notation, and conventions
Overview of DITA
Accessibility and translation
- Accessibility
- Translation and localization
DITA map processing
DITA addressing
DITA processing
Configuration and specialization
Element reference
- DITA elements, A to Z
- DITA attributes, A to Z
- Topic elements
  - Basic topic elements
    - abstract
    - body
    - bodydiv
    - dita
    - prolog
    - related-links
    - shortdesc
    - title
    - titlealt
    - topic
  - Body elements
    - alt
    - cite
    - dd
    - ddhd
    - desc
    - div
    - dl
    - dlentry
    - dlhead
    - draft-comment
    - dt
    - dthd
    - example
    - fallback
    - fig
    - figgroup
    - fn
    - image
    - include
    - keyword
    - li
    - lines
    - longdescref
    - lq
    - note
    - object
    - ol
    - p
    - param
    - ph
    - pre
    - q
    - section
    - sl
    - sli
    - term
    - text
    - tm
    - ul
    - xref
  - Multimedia elements
    - audio
    - media-source
    - media-track
    - video
    - video-poster
  - Indexing elements
  - Related links elements
    - link
    - linkinfo
    - linklist
    - linkpool
    - linktext
  - Table elements
    - colspec
    - entry
    - row
    - simpletable
    - stentry
    - sthead
    - strow
    - table
    - tbody
    - tgroup
    - thead
- Map elements
  - Basic map elements
    - keytext
    - map
    - navref
    - relcell
    - relcolspec
    - relheader
    - relrow
    - reltable
    - topicref
    - topicmeta
    - ux-window
  - Subject scheme elements
- Metadata elements
  - Descriptive metadata
    - audience
    - author
    - category
    - keywords
    - othermeta
    - prodinfo
    - publisher
    - prodname
    - prognum
  - Lifecycle management metadata
    - copyrholder
    - copyright
    - copyryear
    - created
    - critdates
    - metadata
    - permissions
    - resourceid
    - revised
    - source
  - Product information metadata
    - brand
    - component
    - featnum
    - platform
    - series
    - vrmlist
    - vrm
- Specialization elements
- Domain elements
- Other elements
  - Legacy conversion elements
    - required-cleanup
  - DITAVAL elements
    - alt-text
    - endflag
    - prop
    - revprop
    - startflag
    - style-conflict
    - val
- Attributes
Conformance
Acknowledgments
Aggregated RFC-2119 statements
Coding practices for DITA grammar files
Constraint modules
- Examples: Constraints implemented using DTDs
- Examples: Constraints implemented using RNG
Expansion modules
- Examples: Expansion implemented using DTDs
- Examples: Expansion implemented using RNG
Element-by-element recommendations for translators
Formatting expectations
Migrating to DITA 2.0
- Changes from DITA 1.3 to DITA 2.0
- Information about migrating to DITA 2.0
OASIS grammar files
Processing interoperability considerations
Revision history

Lifecycle management metadata

The lifecycle-management metadata elements are children of the <prolog> element. The contain information about the product lifecyle.

copyrholder
A copyright holder is the entity that holds the legal rights to a work that has been assigned a copyright.
copyright
A copyright is a legal device that gives the creator of a creative work the sole right to publish and sell that work.
copyryear
A copyright year is the year in which an author first published a work or submitted it to a copyright-granting agency.
created
The creation date is the date that a document was created.
critdates
Critical dates are important dates in the document life cycle, such as creation and revision dates.
metadata
Metadata is data about data.
permissions
Permissions are the level of entitlement that are needed to access content.
resourceid
A resource ID is an identifier that is designed for applications that need to use their own identifier scheme, such as context-sensitive help systems and databases.
revised
Revision information is used to maintain tracking dates that are important in a development cycle, such as the date of the last modification, the original availability date, and the expiration date.
source
A source is a resource from which the present topic is derived, either completely or in part.

Parent topic: Metadata elements

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