1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

     2 <!--Arbortext, Inc., 1988-2005, v.4002-->

     3 <!DOCTYPE reference PUBLIC "-//IBM//DTD DITA Reference//EN"

     4  "..\dtd\reference.dtd">

     5 <reference id="apiReferenceDoc" outputclass="moduleset" xml:lang="en-us">

     6 <title>Generic API topic types</title>

     7 <shortdesc>The generic API topic types describe any application programming

     8 interface (API) library and can serve as a basis for deriving more specialized

     9 topic types for specific languages or other library environments.</shortdesc>

    10 <refbody>

    11 <section><title>Description</title><p>The general-purpose topic types layer

    12 can be specialized to provide language-specific or environment-specific topic

    13 types for an API reference. You should use the most specific set of topic

    14 types that match the language or environment for your library. For example,

    15 use the Java API topic type for Java language.</p><p>The API

    16 reference provides the following set of general purpose topic types for describing

    17 the interface provided by programmable libraries:</p></section>

    18 </refbody>

    19 </reference>