The DITA Map Document Type

DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can also serve as outlines or tables of contents for DITA deliverables and as build manifests for DITA projects.

Maps allow scalable reuse of content across multiple contexts. They can be used by information architects, authors, and publishers to plan, develop, and deliver content.

A file is considered to be a DITA map document when either of the following is true:

The root element name is one of the following: map, bookmap.
The public id of the document is -//OASIS//DTD DITA Map or -//OASIS//DTD DITA BookMap.
The root element of the file has an attribute named class which contains the value map/map and a DITAArchVersion attribute from the http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/ namespace. This enhanced case of matching is only applied when the Enable DTD processing option from the Document Type Association preferences page is enabled.

Default schemas that are used if one is not detected in the DITA map document 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/.

The default catalogs for the DITA Map document type are as follows:

[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/catalog.xml
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/catalog-dita.xml (or if you are using DITA 2.x, [OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT2.x/catalog-dita.xml)