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<title>Generic API topic types</title>
<shortdesc>The generic API topic types describe any application programming
interface (API) library and can serve as a basis for deriving more specialized
topic types for specific languages or other library environments.</shortdesc>
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<section><title>Description</title><p>The general-purpose topic types layer
can be specialized to provide language-specific or environment-specific topic
types for an API reference. You should use the most specific set of topic
types that match the language or environment for your library. For example,
use the Java API topic type for Java language.</p><p>The API
reference provides the following set of general purpose topic types for describing
the interface provided by programmable libraries:</p></section>
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