Architectural Specification 1.1

• About the DITA 1.1 Specification
• An introduction to DITA
  • Definitions and background concepts
    • Basic concepts
    • Terminology
  • Naming conventions and file extensions
  • DTD organization
  • XML Schema organization
• DITA markup
  • DITA topics
    • What are topics?
    • Why topics?
    • Information typing
    • Transitional text
    • Generic topics
      • Topic structure
      • Topic content
      • Topic modules
    • Concepts
    • Tasks
    • Reference (architecture)
    • Glossary
    • Topic domains
  • DITA maps
    • What are maps?
    • Why DITA maps?
    • Common DITA map attributes and metadata
    • DITA map structure
    • DITA map modules
    • Inheritance of attributes and metadata in maps
    • Bookmap (architecture)
    • Map domains
      • The xNAL domain
  • Metadata elements and common attributes
    • Common metadata elements
      • Publication metadata elements
      • Management metadata elements
      • Metadata qualification elements
    • Common attributes
      • Identifier and content referencing attributes
      • Metadata attributes
      • Miscellaneous Attributes
      • Architectural attributes
    • Topic properties in topics and maps
      • Metadata inheritance between maps and topics
• DITA processing
  • IDs and references
  • Navigation behaviors
  • Content inclusion (conref)
  • Conditional processing (profiling)
  • Chunking
  • Translation
    • The xml:lang attribute
    • The dir attribute
    • All elements with translation properties
• DITA specialization
  • What is specialization?
  • Why specialization?
  • Structural versus domain specialization
  • Specializing foreign or unknown content
  • Data extensibility
  • Limits of specialization
  • Specialization in content
    • Why specialization in content?
    • Specialization of attributes
    • The class attribute
    • Class attribute syntax
    • The domains attribute
    • Specialization validity
    • Generalization
      • Attribute generalization
      • Foreign generalization
  • Specialization in design
    • Why specialization in design?
    • Modularization and integration of design
    • Integration
    • Modularization in DTDs
    • Modularization in schemas
  • Specialization in processing
    • Using the class attribute
    • Processing specialized attributes
    • Processing foreign content
    • Modularization and integration of processing
    • Customization
    • Modularization in CSS
    • Modularization in XSLT
• Alphabetical listing of Architectural Specification topics

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