Oxygen XML Author plugin 13.2.0

Author for DITA | 108Creating DITA Maps and TopicsThe basic building block for DITA information is the DITA topic. DITA provides the following topic types:• Concept - For general, conceptual information such as a description of a product or feature.• Task - For procedural information such as how to use a dialog.• Reference - For reference information.You can organize topics into a DITA map or bookmap. A map is a hierarchy of topics. A bookmap supports also bookdivisions such as chapters and book lists such as indexes. Maps do not contain the content of topics, but only referencesto them. These are known as topic references. Usually the maps and bookmaps are saved on disk or in a CMS with theextension '.ditamap'.Maps can also contain relationship tables that establish relationships between the topics contained within the map.Relationship tables are also used to generate links in your published document.You can use your map or bookmap to generate a deliverable using an output type such as XHTML, PDF, HTML Helpor Eclipse Help.Editing DITA MapsOxygen XML Author plugin provides a special view for editing DITA maps. The DITA Maps Manager view presentsa map in a simplified table-of-contents manner allowing the user to navigate easily to the referred topics and maps, makechanges and perform transformations to various output formats using the DITA-OT framework bundled with OxygenXML Author plugin .Figure 64: The DITA Maps Manager ViewYou can open a map file from Project in the DITA Maps Manager view by right clicking it and choosing Open inDITA Maps Manager. The titles of the referenced resources are resolved and displayed in the view dynamically whennavigating the tree. After the map is opened in the view, you can open it in the main editor for further customizationusing the Open map in editor toolbar action.