permissions

The <permissions> element in a topic's metadata specifies the level of entitlement needed to access the content.

The <permissions> element indicates any preferred controls for access to content.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

- topic/permissions

Example

<prolog>
  <permissions view="entitled"/>
</prolog>

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and the attribute defined below.

@view

Defines the classifications of viewers allowed to view the document. Beginning with DITA 1.2, values in this attribute are not limited to a small number of choices; the following values were used in DITA 1.0 and DITA 1.1, and are still provided as sample values:

internal: For internal use only.
classified: For a certain group, only.
all: The world.
entitled: Special folks, only.
-dita-use-conref-target: See Using the -dita-use-conref-target value for more information.