Part II: Architecting Content

6 DITA Maps and Navigation

7 Linking

8 Metadata

9 Conditional Processing

10 Content Reuse

If you’ve survived basic training—topic-based writing and short descriptions—and you’re now ready for Part II, you must be hungry for more. Excellent! DITA has even more to offer than just the basic framework for topics.

Your next challenge is to architect your information: You need to assemble your topics into information that is retrievable, organized, and reusable. To get there, you’ll need to learn about the DITA maps, linking, metadata, and other fun topics.

The concepts in Chapters 610 can be a bit daunting, but taking advantage of these powerful DITA features can pay off in the future. For example, you can write fewer ...

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