30.7 Specializing or modifying DITA topic types

To include custom specialized topic types or maps in your DITA project, you must provide a separate content-model configuration file for each new topic type or modified map or bookmap DTD. You can derive a new type from any of the built-in topic types topic, concept, task, reference, map, or glossary (DITA 1.1 only), or from another specialized type for which you provide a DTD.

In this section:

§30.7.1 Creating a content model for a specialized topic type

§30.7.2 Overriding settings in a DITA content model

§30.7.4 Overriding declarations in a DITA map content model

§30.7.5 Listing DITA topic type configuration files

§30.7.6 Locating DITA topic type configuration files

§30.7.7 Providing table structure information for DITA topic types

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