DITA authoring has a number of peculiarities as DITA documents differ significantly from documents of other document types.
Referencing is an effective means of content reuse in DITA. Content reuse is available at different levels (elements, topics, maps) by means of different types of references.
All editions of Serna support DITA. However, DITA usability tools (DITA dialogs available through the DITA menu and the DITA toolbar), which facilitate the insertion of common DITA constructs, and reference navigation are available in Serna Enterprise Edition only. Download a free trial of Serna Enterprise at http://www.syntext.com/downloads/serna/.
In DITA, the uniqueness of ID attributes within a specific scope is essential for making references.
DITA IDs are ID attributes of non-topic elements. Unlike IDs of topic elements, which must be unique within the scope of the whole document, DITA IDs must be unique within the scope of the parent topic or map. DITA IDs are specially treated in Serna.
When you work with DITA documents, Serna maintains the uniqueness of DITA elements' IDs and reports duplicate DITA IDs.
You can use DITA custom content to quickly insert the most common DITA content portions. DITA custom content differs from Docbook custom content.
Learn about supported image formats and placement of images in DITA documents.
Some XML content is inadvisable in DITA.