# apiItemRef

This element provides a application programming interface (API) class topic type as a link in a DITA map.

#### Description

A <apiItemRef> can contain <topicref> and <topicmeta> elements, allowing you to express navigation or table-of-contents hierarchies, as well as implying relationships between the containing topicref and its children.

#### Example

    <apiItemRef navtitle="IRXEAbstraction Object" href="apiPackage/apiClassifier/irxeabstraction.dita"
             type="apiClassifier" locktitle="yes" platform="vb6" product="rxe">
        <apiItemRef navtitle="IRXEAbstraction Members" href="apiPackage/irxeabstractionPM.dita"
                type="apiPackage" locktitle="yes">
             <apiItemRef navtitle="addStereotypeByString Method (IRXEAbstraction Interface)"
                href="apiPackage/apiClassifier/apiOperation/addStereotypeByString.dita" locktitle="yes">
             </apiItemRef>
             <apiItemRef navtitle="Application Property (IRXEAbstraction Interface)"
                href="apiPackage/apiClassifier/apiOperation/Application.dita">
             </apiItemRef>

    </apiItemRef>
    </apiItemRef>

#### Contained by

apiItemRef, apiMap

#### Contains

apiItemRef, topicmeta, topicref

#### Content model

( (topicmeta) (optional) then (topicref) (any number) then (apiItemRef) (any number))

#### Inheritance

map/topicref

Parent topic: apiMap