Specifying Related Topics Links in DITA Source Documents

Create related topics links by applying the Related Topics paragraph format to cross-references you create in your DITA source documents. Before you create related topics in your source documents, review related topics links requirements. For more information about related topics and related topics links requirements, see Related Topics and Requirements for Creating Related Topics Links in DITA Source Documents.

The following procedure provides an example of how to create related topics links in DITA source documents using DITA 1.4. Steps for creating related topics links in DITA may be different in other versions of DITA.

To create a related topics list in a DITA source document

1. Identify the topic in which you would like to insert a related topics list.

2. Identify the different topics you want to link to from this topic.

   Note: Generally, you should only create one related topics list for each section of your source document that corresponds to a help topic. For example, if you have specified in your ePublisher project that there will be a page break at each Heading 1 section, then you should only create one related topics list for each Heading 1 section within your source document.