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<span>Posted:</span> 24 Apr 2017 02:20 PM PDT</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;">  <p>The DITA standard is based on this concept of inheritance which allows extending or restricting the vocabulary while allowing the XML content to still be regarded as valid DITA. Even in the DITA standard there are various element which are specializations of others (for example "b" is a specialization of ph"). The XSLT styesheets which are used for publishing match all DITA elements by the value of their @class attribute so knowing how elements may extend each other may be useful when customizing the DITA XSLTs. </p><p>A DITA inheritance hierarchy list for the base DITA specification is presented below. Would you consider it useful if a future version of Oxygen would have some kind of a tool to show such hierarchies even for custom DITA specializations? </p>     <ul>      <li>topic/copyryear</li>      <li>topic/foreign          <ul>            <li>mathml-d/mathml</li>            <li>svg-d/svg-container</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/author</li>      <li>topic/example</li>      <li>topic/unknown</li>      <li>topic/titlealts</li>      <li>topic/linktext</li>      <li>topic/category</li>      <li>topic/data          <ul>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-request-reference</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-person</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-request-id</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-request-system</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-completed</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-started</li>            <li>ut-d/sort-as</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-item</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-organization</li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-summary</li>            <li>concept/data                <ul>                  <li>glossentry/glossPartOfSpeech</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossProperty</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossStatus</li>               </ul>            </li>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-revisionid</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/longdescref</li>      <li>topic/audience</li>      <li>topic/abstract          <ul>            <li>concept/abstract                <ul>                  <li>glossentry/glossdef</li>               </ul>            </li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/related-links</li>      <li>topic/body          <ul>            <li>task/taskbody</li>            <li>concept/conbody                <ul>                  <li>glossentry/glossBody</li>               </ul>            </li>            <li>troubleshooting/troublebody</li>            <li>reference/refbody</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/ph          <ul>            <li>hi-d/overline</li>            <li>hi-d/line-through</li>            <li>hi-d/sub</li>            <li>pr-d/sep</li>            <li>equation-d/equation-inline</li>            <li>pr-d/repsep</li>            <li>equation-d/equation-number</li>            <li>hi-d/tt</li>            <li>task/cmd</li>            <li>pr-d/synph</li>            <li>sw-d/userinput</li>            <li>ut-d/coords</li>            <li>pr-d/oper</li>            <li>hi-d/sup</li>            <li>pr-d/var</li>            <li>sw-d/msgph</li>            <li>pr-d/codeph</li>            <li>ui-d/uicontrol</li>            <li>hi-d/i</li>            <li>hi-d/u</li>            <li>sw-d/filepath</li>            <li>sw-d/systemoutput</li>            <li>pr-d/delim</li>            <li>hi-d/b</li>            <li>ui-d/menucascade</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/object</li>      <li>topic/fig          <ul>            <li>ut-d/imagemap</li>            <li>pr-d/syntaxdiagram</li>            <li>equation-d/equation-figure</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/featnum</li>      <li>topic/lines</li>      <li>topic/brand</li>      <li>topic/state</li>      <li>topic/source</li>      <li>topic/link</li>      <li>topic/vrm</li>      <li>topic/sli</li>      <li>topic/navtitle</li>      <li>topic/figgroup          <ul>            <li>pr-d/synblk</li>            <li>pr-d/fragment</li>            <li>ut-d/area</li>            <li>pr-d/groupcomp</li>            <li>pr-d/groupseq</li>            <li>pr-d/groupchoice</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/note          <ul>            <li>hazard-d/hazardstatement</li>            <li>concept/note                <ul>                  <li>glossentry/glossScopeNote</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossUsage</li>               </ul>            </li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/ol          <ul>            <li>task/substeps</li>            <li>task/steps</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/stentry          <ul>            <li>task/choption</li>            <li>reference/propvalue</li>            <li>reference/propvaluehd</li>            <li>reference/propdeschd</li>            <li>reference/propdesc</li>            <li>reference/proptype</li>            <li>reference/proptypehd</li>            <li>task/choptionhd</li>        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yword          <ul>            <li>ui-d/shortcut</li>            <li>markup-d/markupname                <ul>                  <li>xml-d/parameterentity</li>                  <li>xml-d/xmlatt</li>                  <li>xml-d/numcharref</li>                  <li>xml-d/xmlpi</li>                  <li>xml-d/textentity</li>                  <li>xml-d/xmlnsname</li>                  <li>xml-d/xmlelement</li>               </ul>            </li>            <li>pr-d/parmname</li>            <li>pr-d/option</li>            <li>sw-d/cmdname</li>            <li>ui-d/wintitle</li>            <li>ut-d/shape</li>            <li>sw-d/varname</li>            <li>pr-d/apiname</li>            <li>pr-d/kwd</li>            <li>sw-d/msgnum</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/thead</li>      <li>topic/publisher</li>      <li>topic/desc</li>      <li>topic/term          <ul>            <li>abbrev-d/abbreviated-form</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/title          <ul>            <li>concept/title                <ul>                  <li>glossentry/glossShortForm</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossAbbreviation</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossSynonym</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossterm</li>                  <li>glossentry/glossAcronym</li>               </ul>            </li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/itemgroup          <ul>            <li>task/steptroubleshooting</li>            <li>task/tutorialinfo</li>            <li>task/info</li>            <li>task/stepxmp</li>            <li>task/stepresult</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/row</li>      <li>topic/linkpool</li>      <li>topic/param</li>      <li>topic/shortdesc</li>      <li>topic/resourceid</li>      <li>topic/dthd</li>      <li>topic/metadata          <ul>            <li>relmgmt-d/change-historylist</li>         </ul>      </li>      <li>topic/othermeta</li>      <li>topic/prognum</li>      <li>topic/sectiondiv</li>   </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~4/_uE1DzO51sg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></div>
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