The metadata section of the prolog contains information about a topic such as audience and product information. Metadata can be used by computational processes to select particular topics or to prepare search indexes or to customize navigation. Elements inside of metadata provide information about the content and subject of a topic; prolog elements outside of metadata provide lifecycle information for the content unit (such as the author or copyright), which are unrelated to the subject.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/metadata
Example
Metadata within a topic:
<prolog>
<metadata>
<audience type="user" job="using" experiencelevel="novice"/>
</metadata>
</prolog>
Metadata within a map:
<topicref href="metadata.dita" navtitle="metadata element">
<topicmeta>
<metadata>
<keywords>
<indexterm>metadata element</indexterm>
</keywords>
</metadata>
</topicmeta>
</topicref>
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and mapkeyref.