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
Detection option page is enabled.
The default schemas
used for DITA map documents are stored in
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/dtd/ or
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/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