3.1.1.1.11 dita

The <dita> element provides a top-level container for multiple topics when you create documents using the ditabase document type. The <dita> element lets you create any sequence of concept, task, and reference topics, and the ditabase document type lets you nest these topic types inside each other. The <dita> element has no particular output implications; it simply allows you to create multiple topics of different types at the same level in a single document.

Contains

Note: These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS. Actual content models will differ with each new document type.

Doctype	Content model
ditabase	( topic or concept or task or reference or glossentry or glossgroup) (one or more)

Contained by

This element is not contained by any other elements.

Inheritance

Not a specializable DITA element.

Example

<dita>
 <concept id="batintro">...</concept>
 <reference id="batparts">...</reference>
 <task id="batfeeding">...</task>
 <task id="battraining">...</task>
 <task id="batcleanup">...</task>
</dita>

Attributes

Name	Description	Data Type	Default Value	Required?
xml:lang	Specifies the language of the element content. The xml:lang attribute and its values are described in the XML Recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag.	language token or the null string	#IMPLIED	No
xmlns:ditaarch	Declares the default DITA namespace.	"http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"
DITAArchVersion	Designates the version of the architecture that is in use. The default value will increase with each release of DITA.	CDATA	"1.2"	No
global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc)	A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group

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