DITA Concept Topics

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DITA reading and viewing. Read, watch, and listen to the following to learn what a concept topic is and how to create one:

• Vickey Morrow: Concept topics (reading)
• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 3, "Concept Topics" (not required)
• Vickey Morrow: Concept topic—introduction with oXygen (video)
• Vickey Morrow: Creating concept topics with oXygen (video)
• David McMurrey: Creating a concept topic with easyDITA (video)

• Concept topic: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/technicalContent/dita-concept-topic.html.
• Concept topic: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/m/dita1.2_spec/archSpec/dita_concept_topic.html.

DITA Task Topics

DITA reading and viewing. Read, watch, and listen to the following to learn what a concept topic is and how to create one:

• Vickey Morrow: Task topics (reading)
• DITA Best Practices, Chapter 2, "Task Topics" (not required)
• Vickey Morrow: Using oXygen demo (video)
• Vickey Morrow: Part 1 Task topics with oXygen (video)
• David McMurrey: Using elements to build task topics with oXygen (video)

More information on task topics:

• DITA: Specializations (task, concept, reference): https://idratherbewriting.com/specializations/
• In oXygen, DITA strict task topic: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/technicalContent/dita-task-topic.html.
• DITA general task topic: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/technicalContent/dita-generic-task-topic.html.

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