# apioperation

The <apioperation> element is a reference to an operation.

#### Description

This element can be used to reference an operation from another DITA topic type.

#### Example

    <task id="httpxml">
      <title>Getting an XML file through an HTTP connection</title>
      <taskbody>
        <steps>
        <step><cm>Open the connection</cm>
          <info>You use <apioperation keyref="com.ibm.xtools.patterns.framework.uml2.PlugletException.notify">Notify method</apioperation>
          in a VB6 application.</info>
        </step>
        ...
        </steps>
      </taskbody>
    </task>

#### Content model

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#### Inheritance

topic/xref pr-d/xref

Parent topic: api-domain reference module