There are two main approaches to subject classification currently being explored for future use in DITA, which this page will call the map-based approach and the metadata approach.

In the map-based approach, a taxonomy is represented using a hierarchy in a DITA map. Each member of the hierarchy is a specialization of the <topicref> element. Each <topicref> element points to a topic that describes the subject of that node of the taxonomy.

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