The DITA Topics Document Type

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture oriented to authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. It divides content into small, self-contained topics that you can reuse in various deliverables. The extensibility of DITA permits organizations to define specific information structures while still using standard tools to work with them. Oxygen XML Editor provides schema-driven (DTD, RNG, XSD) templates for DITA documents.

A file is considered to be a DITA topic document when one of the following conditions are true:

• The root element name is one of the following: concept, task, reference, dita, or topic.
• The PUBLIC ID of the document is a PUBLIC ID for the elements listed above.
• The root element of the file has an attribute named DITAArchVersion for the "http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/" namespace. This enhanced case of matching is only applied when the Enable DTD/XML Schema processing in document type detection option is enabled from the Document Type Association preferences page.

Default schemas that are used if one is not detected in the DITA documents are stored in the various folders inside [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/dtd/ or [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/schema/ (or if you are using DITA 2.x, inside [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT2.x/dtd/ or [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT2.x/schema/).

The default CSS files used for rendering DITA content in Author mode are stored in [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/css/.

1. DITA Author Mode Actions
   
2. DITA Transformation Scenarios
   
3. DITA Templates