DITA OT release 1.5
Release 1.5 is a major release based on the new DITA 1.2 draft standard.
It contains full support for DITA 1.2 draft as defined in the fall of 2009 (prior to public review).
In addition to DITA 1.2 support, release 1.5 contains the following updates, which are available in Milestone 21 or earlier of the DITA-OT test builds:
General Enhancements
- New parameter to generate output for only the topics referenced in a map
- Use fileparameter in Ant 1.7 to replace processing instruction in intermediate dita files
- Determine the version of DITA-OT via the class org.dita.dost.util.Version
- Remove duplicate ids in PDF topicmerge
- Move Notices before the TOC, suppress in the TOC and suppress the second copy after the TOC
- Include @scope="peer" condition when creating rel-links.
SourceForge Enhancements Added
- 2859612 Add support for Serbian (Latin)
- 2845278 Add Ant parameters for XSLT parameters
- 2824371 Support Hindi and Urdu for XHTML output
- 2790755 Process in unique temp directories (Designed to allow multiple builds to take place at once)
- 2780998 startcmd.sh: Run the user's shell, not sh
- 2698921 Add a way to set attributes on <body>
- 2120219 Add PDF to the supported image
- 2002857 homeID in javahelp .hs file is not set
- 1725284 add support for headings for sections within task (XHTML only)
- 1623246 Support RFC4646 language tags in Index modules
- 1367897 Xref content generation enforces formatting choices
- 2882109 Convert named PDF templates to mode template
- 2883406 Add extension point for modifying PDF link text
- 2882870 Add parameter to control PDF Chapter style
- 2882103 Provide hook for specializations to add custom headers
- 2882072 Add parameter to control PDF bookmarks (default collapsed)
93 SourceForge Bugs Fixed
- 2860433 Keyref on <image> fails to resolve
- 2860199 Chunk to-content in submap resulting in missing output
- 2860168 Suppress data and data-about in PDF output
- 2857167 conrefImpl.xsl 1.6.4.13 has duplicate variable decls
- 2856742 Problem of keys attribute in nested topicref elements
- 2854546 Peer xref leads to invalid destination error in PDF
- 2849200 Style on ditaval prop or revprop is ignored
- 2846111 Unnecessary text generated for external xref
- 2845598 1.5-M18-demo/fo/Customization pdf.formatter
- 2842753 catalog-dita.xml has invalid entries
- 2839035 Chunk code cannot parse xref with &
- 2832696 Move meta module pushes content into non-DITA file
- 2829350 Build_demo.xml places files in incorrect directory
- 2826143 Move meta module discards link text
- 2824907 1.5 M17 Bug - FileNotFoundException export.xml eclipsehelp
- 2819853 missing nested indexterm after 3rd
- 2815492 PDF: keep-with-next on shortdesc
- 2815485 Prolog indexterm not processed properly for PDF
- 2813082 Eclipse help MANIFEST.MF filename wrong case, needs CRLF
- 2811980 pdf2: japanese translate for generated page number of a ref
- 2811358 Incorrect entry@colname in middle file at PDF generation
- 2804442 Bad param name in prereq-fmt template's call to sect-heading
- 2799543 Child links in HTML Help output are wrong
- 2797030 Chunking fails with bookmap
- 2796614 Leading slash breaks PLUGINS_ROOT usage for Eclipse help
- 2791696 reltable DITA 1.2 (#12048)
- 2791345 Topicmeta searchtitles in map not used in topic
- 2791278 Keyref Resolution Fails for Non-Descendant Topics
- 2790807 Demo code should use new PDF output
- 2788069 Topicmerge does not handle copy-to properly
- 2788069 Topicmerge does not handle copy-to properly
- 2782503 Extra space before bullet list in xhtml output DITA-OT 1.4.3
- 2774128 startcmd.sh is encoded with DOS line endings in v1.5 M13
- 2759964 HTML outputs filters conditional topics poorly
- 2759964 HTML outputs filters conditional topics poorly
- 2748371 Revision + ID gives XSL error
- 2739236 plus-allhtml-svgobject handles <alt> badly
- 2724090 XHTML: conreffed by-reference footnotes break w/ chunking
- 2723928 gen-toc template not matching properly
- 2723715 Itemgroup sets @id when element is not open
- 2712074 XHTML: chunk=to-content on map breaks by-reference footnotes
- 2706725 Single quote inserted in empty table cells in FO
- 2696229 FO plugin code incompatible with Saxon 9 (OT1.4.3 default)
- 2696191 Java libraries missing from 1.4.3 distributions
- 2647292 HTML stylesheets should style <wintitle> and <filepath>
- 2629271 maplink: should not modify href if scope=external
- 2629256 mapref: should not modify href if scope=external
- 2573681 Move link module does extra processing
- 2547437 zh_TW.properties and zh_CN.properties contents are mixed up
- 2418932 toc attribute does not work for references to ditamaps
- 2317681 Extra files generated when many topics are chunked to one
- 2317581 inline formatting in shortdesc
- 1931457 Need to identify transtype during XHTML output step
- 1629094 docbook creates empty simplelists
- 1628936 transtype=docbook does not handle publisher and copyright element
- 2849078 Problems using keyrefs with DITA OT 1.5 M19 - ID: 2849078
- 2875373 tm in linktext is dropped
- 2870935 keyref within topics ignore @copy-to attributes
- 2873560 SWF flash not defined as resources to be copied
- 2872954 Conref push not working at map level
- 2871009 Temp directory leaves behind single directory and file
- 2866322 Generated links have bad URLs
- 2873654 PDF missing rules for new DITA 1.2 content elements
- 2872988 Bad relcolwidth crashes PDF output
- 2866204 Topicref with keyref fails to produce output
- 2878446 Issue with ampersand in xrefs in attributes
- 1629096 docbook creates invalid varlistentry
- 2871326 Cannot use different TOC titles for same topic in PDF
- 1880097 PDF2 ingnores contents of <xref> elements
- 1815571 Invalid property in fo:table-body
- 2879171 Shortdesc & Abstract formatting is incorrect for PDF
- 2882085 Obsolete code in PDF plug-in should be removed
- 2661418 make the TOC in pdf2 output link to topics in pdf
- 2871017 eclipsehelp plugin.xml invalid in 1.5M20
- 2887331 chunk="to-content" on a sub-map causes path error
- 2891736 indexterm in topicref level are copied into topic/prolog
- 2893316 This is a bug in the integrator.xml
- 2893493 ${clean.temp} is not set to true per documentation
- 2893664 ampersand entity with conref actions causes build to fail
- 2893924 htmlhelp transtype requires video plugin
- 1628937 Rename supportingboth.ditaand.xmlinaditamap.dita
- 1771123 Inappropriate Message 018 On type= value
- 1819660 Eclipse Help issue producing toc file.
- 1848313 ditaval file sent to XSLT not URL
- 1897542 Chunk to-content may need to rewrite topic IDs
- 2875946 PDF: table @pgwide semantics not implemented
- 2893745 missing fop's file/directory in standard package
- 2900047 map2htmtoc.xsl doesn't allow for extension of root template
- 2900417 html transform does not use image/@scale properly
- 2906957 Update Eclipse plugin DTDs and packaging
- 2796964 Use xml:lang for generated text in PDF
- 2860596 PullPrologIndexTerms selection too wide, Removed spurious pullPrologIndexTerms in section/title
- 1852733 Image "scale" attribute is ignored
4 SourceForge Patches Added
- 2790337 Add extension points to related-links code
- 2778178 Flagging code duplicates XSL
- 2715750 plus-transtype-htmlhelp: support alternate compilers
- 2804311 Feature value trim test bug