Inserting Topic Groups

The <topicgroup> element identifies a group of topics (such as a concepts, tasks, or references) or other resources. A <topicgroup> can contain other <topicgroup> elements, allowing you to express navigation or table-of-contents hierarchies, as well as implying relationships between the containing <topicgroup> and its children. You can set the collection-type of a container <topicgroup> to determine how its children are related to each other. Relationships end up expressed as links in the output (with each participant in a relationship having links to the other participants by default).

You can insert a topic group by doing the following:

Those actions open the Insert Topic Group dialog box that allows you to easily insert a <topicgroup> element and various attributes can be specified (such as Collection type, Type, Scope, Format, etc.)

Figure 1. Insert Topic Group Using the Insert Reference Dialog Box