Default DITA Element Mappings

The included XSLT modules group tags into a number of categories for transforming into HTML.

By default, all DITA elements are converted into <div> tags, unless otherwise specified below.

HTML Equivalents
The following elements and their specializations are converted directly into their HTML equivalents.
  • <p>
  • <b>
  • <i>
  • <u>
  • <sup>
  • <sub>
  • <dl>
  • <ul>
  • <ol>
  • <li>
  • <pre>
  • <object>
  • <param>
  • <dt>
  • <dd>
  • <q>
Simple Inline Elements
The following elements and their specializations are converted into simple <span> tags.
  • <ph>
  • <keyword>
  • <cite>
  • <term>
  • Children of <personname>
  • Children of <locality>
  • <foreign>
  • <unknown>
Inline Code Elements
The following elements and their specializations are converted to <code> tags.
  • <filepath>
  • <codeph>
  • <cmdname>
  • <apiname>
Deleted Tags
The following elements and their contents are not represented in the output HTML at all by default using these modules.
  • <abbreviated-form>
  • <fn>
  • <data>
  • <data-about>
  • <indexterm>
  • <reltable>
  • <titlealts>
  • <prolog>