category

The <category> element can represent any category by which a topic might be classified for retrieval or navigation; for example, the categories could be used to group topics in a generated navigation bar. Topics can belong to multiple categories.

Example

 <prolog>
  <metadata>
   <category>Things that are blue</category>
  </metadata>
 </prolog>

Contains

Doctype	Content model
ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept	( text data or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number)
map, bookmap	( text data or keyword or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number)

Contained by

Doctype	Parents
ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference	metadata
bookmap	topicmeta, bookmeta
map	topicmeta

Inheritance:

- topic/category

Attributes

Name	Description	Data Type	Default Value	Required?
%univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;)	A set of related attributes, described at %univ-atts;	parameter entity	PE not applicable	Not applicable
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc)	A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts;	parameter entity	PE not applicable	Not applicable
class	A common attribute described in Other common DITA attributes