prolog

The <prolog> element contains information about the topic as an whole (for example, author information or subject category) that is either entered by the author or machine-maintained. Much of the metadata inside the <prolog> will not be displayed with the topic on output, but may be used by processes that generate search indexes or customize navigation.

<prolog>
  <metadata>
    <audience type="user" job="using" experiencelevel="novice"/>
  </metadata>
</prolog>

Contains

Doctype	Content model
ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept, glossary	( ( author) (any number) then ( source) (optional) then ( publisher) (optional) then ( copyright) (any number) then ( critdates) (optional) then ( permissions) (optional) then ( metadata) (any number) then ( resourceid) (any number) then ( data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number) )

Contained by

Doctype	Parents
ditabase	topic, concept, task, reference
topic	topic
task	topic, task
concept	topic, concept
reference	topic, reference
glossary	topic, concept

Inheritance:

- topic/prolog

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