How to add or hide elements in a techinfo map

Hi Bryon--

Yes, the "quick tags" menu (showing what can be inserted at the current caret location by pressing Enter) is determined by the DTD/XSD. It won't let you insert anything that isn't valid according to the doctype.

If you want to add an element, you would do that via a DITA specialization. However, there's a bit of overhead involved in that, it's not as simple as just popping a new tag name into an element content model. The Help Center has information about DITA specialization if you search for that term.

An easier approach would be to use one of the already defined topics, with a specific label in the "outputclass" attribute. For example, you might use something like this:

<concept id="myAppendix" outputclass="appendix">
 <title>Appendix A: Additional Stuff</title>
 <conbody>
 <p>Some additional stuff follows...</p>
 ...
 </conbody>
</concept>

This would give you the ability to style it differently in the stylesheet, without the overhead of developing and maintaining a specialization.

--Clay