DITA OT release 1.1

1. Adaptation to the new OASIS DITA standard

   Release 1.1 implements the new OASIS DITA 1.0 standard for DITA DTDs and Schemas.

   DTDs of the previous release locate in the directory dtd/dita132 and schemas of the previous release locate in the directory schema/dita132.

2. Transformation to troff

   Release 1.1 supports new troff output. Troff output looks like Linux man page output.

3. XML catalog support

   An XML catalog, which can consist of several catalog entry files, is a logical structure that describes mapping information between public IDs and URLs of DTD files. A catalog entry file is an XML file that includes a group of catalog entries. If you want to know more about XML catalog, please referXML Catalog.

   A catalog entry can be used to locate a unified resource identifier (URI) reference for a certain resource such as a DTD file. An external entity's public identifier is used for mapping to the URI reference. The URI of any system identifier can be ignored.

4. Topicref referring to a nested topic

   The href attribute of the topicref is extended to quote a nested topic in a dita file.

   For example, in previous releases, href attribute is set like: href = "xxx.dita"; in release 1.1, href attribute can be set like: href = "xxx.dita#abc.dita".

5. Globalization support

   Release 1.1 supports over 20 popular languages within the content of dita files. And it also provides translation function for DITA keywords to over 20 languages. Currently this globalization support fully applies to Eclipse Help and XHTML transformations, and partially applies to other transformations.

6. Accessibility support

   Accessibility support is now partially applies to PDF and XHTML transformations.

7. Eclipse Content Provider Support

   Please refer to Eclipse Content Provider for detail information.

8. Index information in output

   The output of HTML Help and Java Help transformations contain index information now.

9. Mapref function

   Mapref refers to a special usage of the <topicref> element as a reference to another ditamap file. This allows you to manage the overall ditamap file more easily. A large ditamap file can thus be broken down into several ditamap files, making it easier for the user to manage the overall logical structure. On the other hand, this mechanism also increases the reusability of those ditamap files. If you want to know more about mapref, please refer Mapref.

10. TOC generation for Eclipse Help transformation

    TOC generation now supported in transformation to Eclipse Help. Eclipse.

11. Helpset generation for Java Help transformation

    Helpset generation now supported in transformation to Java Help.

12. New parameters supported in Java commands

    In Java commands: /indexshow, /outext, /copycss, /xsl, /tempdir.

13. New parameters supported in Ant scripts

    In Ant scripts: args.indexshow, args.outext, args.copycss, args.xsl, dita.temp.dir

Other Changes

1. SF bug 1220569: Add XML Schema processing to DITA-OT
2. SF bug 1220644: Prompted ant--image does not link for single topic to PDF
3. SF bug 1229058: Add schema validation loading file for processing
4. SF RFE 1176855: Ant must be run from toolkit directory
5. SF RFE 1183482: Copy pre-existing html to output dir
6. SF RFE 1183490: Provide argument to specify the location of temp dir
7. SF RFE 1201242: override capability