DITA

Specifications
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

Element reference

This section of the DITA specification contains a topic for each DITA element, as well as information about DITA attributes.

DITA elements, A to Z
This topics provides links to all of the DITA elements in alphabetical order.
DITA attributes, A to Z
This topics provides links to DITA attributes in alphabetical order.
Topic elements
The base topic elements include elements that make up the core building blocks of the DITA topic, such as topic, body, and related-links, as well as elements like <p> and <ph> that are used in many topic specializations. Some of these elements are also available inside the <topicmeta> map element.
Map elements
Map elements include the core components of DITA maps, such as the <topicref> and <reltable> elements.
Metadata elements
The prolog elements represent metadata that is associated with a document. Most of these elements are valid in both topics and maps.
Specialization elements
Several DITA elements exist either for architectural reasons or for support of specialized markup yet to be designed.
Domain elements
A domain is a grouping of related DITA elements that can be integrated into document-type shells. The base edition of DITA includes a variety of domains for use in topics and maps.
Other elements
Attributes
This section contains definitions for commonly-used attributes. If an attribute is defined differently on a specific element, that information is covered in the topic for the specific element.

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