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Subject: RE: [dita] Proposed revision for the keyword definition (was Keyw ords inDITA)


Hi, Bruce:

Looks good to me.


Thanks,


Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com

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RE: [dita] Proposed revision for the keyword definition (was Keyw ords in DITA)

Here is some updated text for consideration.

Bruce

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The <keyword> element and its specializations are used to mark a word or compound word with special meaning in a particular domain. For special treatment of phrases, see <ph>.

In the prolog of a topic, the <keyword> element may appear within the <keywords> element. In this context, the contents of the <keyword> element
indicate the subject of the topic. This information is intended to help an author classify and identify a topic, which can be used for search and retrieval applications and other applications such as flagging.

In the body of a topic,
the <keyword> element delimits words and compound words that also appear within the text of the topic.

In either context, the preferred
approach is to use a specialization of <keyword>. The specializations have special semantics associated with them. In the body of a topic, the specializations can be processed with special formatting in the output. If no appropriate specialization has been created, the author can use the outputclass attribute to indicate the semantic scope.

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