Semantic_markup.dita

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 <title>Semantic markup</title>
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 <conbody>
  <p>Just about every corporate style guide has a list of the formatting used to visually identify
   the different features. For example, all products manuals that show a GUI (graphic user
   interface) have special formatting for UI elements, filenames, and programming code. But while
   O'Reily Press uses italics for filenames, IBM uses monospace, and Microsoft uses TitleCaps, they
   all mean the same thing. So DITA tags them with the <codeph>&lt;filepath></codeph> element. Then,
   if someone high up in the corporation decides that filenames should be displayed in the corporate
   color, the change only needs to be done on the stylesheets (stored on a corporate server), not on
   every single document produced by the corporation.</p>
  <p>DITA has semantic tagging elements for all the types of content that commonly occur in
   Technical Communication and has the capability of adding more as the need arises. Some of the
   DITA elements include: 
   <ul id="ul_xgv_rrv_f3">
    <li>task</li>
    <li>concept</li>
    <li>map</li>
    <li>filepath</li>
    <li>uicontrol</li>
    <li>p</li>
    <li>ph</li>
    <li>codeph</li>
    <li>step</li>
   </ul>
  </p>
  <p>They can nest inside each other based on rules defined by the DITA standard.</p>
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