Ankur Singla introduces DITA Specialization in FrameMaker on the Adobe Tech Comms blog. This is very advanced topic and goes into DITA at great lenght. I’d recommend downloading the PDFs of the article and the sample files, which are available at the end of this post.
Ankur starts by placing specializing in context, “it is the process by which new designs are created based on existing designs, allowing new kind of content to be processed using existing processing rules.Specialization allows you to define new kinds of information (new structural types or new domains of information), while reusing as much of existing design and code as possible, and minimizing or eliminating the costs of interchange, migration, and maintenance.”
He then adds the FrameMaker provides special handling for objects in DITA such as Table, Image, Title, Indexterm, and Xref.
To give an example of what this means: “When we insert a crossref in any DITA document (xref or fm-xref element from element catalog or Special->Cross Reference), DITA-Cross reference dialog shows up. Same should happen if we insert any specialized xref element in any DITA document and name of specialized element should also show in DITA <xref> Element drop down.”
Download PDF of this presentation and Download sample files discussed in the topic
Adobe Technical Communication Blog
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