The DITA Topic document type is primarily intended as the base for developing other specialized topic types. In general, you should use the specialized topic types for developing DITA documents, as they provide more consistent information typing and enable more flexibility in processing. However, you can use the generic DITA Topic type when the material you are documenting is not appropriate for the existing specialized types.

The DITA Topic DTD public identifier is:

The DITA Topic document type is located in the following directory: