DITA Specification draft

• About the DITA Specification
• An introduction to DITA
  • Definitions and background concepts
    • Basic concepts
    • Terminology
  • Naming conventions and file extensions
• DITA markup
  • DITA topics
    • What are topics?
    • Why topics?
    • Information typing
    • Topic structure
    • Topic content
    • Topic modules
    • Concepts
    • Tasks
    • Reference
    • Domains
  • DITA maps
    • What are maps?
    • Why DITA maps?
    • Common DITA map attributes and metadata
    • DITA map structure
    • Inheritance of attributes and metadata
    • DITA map modules
  • Common metadata elements
    • Publication metadata elements
    • Management metadata elements
    • Metadata qualification elements
    • Topic properties in topics and maps
  • Common attributes
    • Identity attribute
    • Content reference attribute
    • Metadata attributes
    • Miscellaneous Attributes
    • Architectural attributes
    • Conditional processing
• DITA specialization
  • What is specialization?
  • Why specialization?
  • Structural versus domain specialization
  • Limits of specialization
  • Specialization in content
    • Why specialization in content?
    • The class attribute
    • Class attribute syntax
    • The domains attribute
    • Specialization validity
    • 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
    • Modularization and integration of processing
      • Customization
      • Modularization in CSS
      • Modularization in XSLT