DITA OT release 1.4.3
Release 1.4.3 is a maintenance release and is intended to be the last released based
fully on DITA 1.1.
It contains a significant amount of preview function for the upcoming DITA 1.2 standard, but the DITA 1.2 document types must be specifically referenced in order to use this capability.
Major Updates
- The PDF codebase switched from the older deprecated code to the plugin previously known as PDF2. Running a build with the transform type PDF or PDF2 will now run the new code. To continue using the older code, set your transform type to "legacypdf".
- The PDF plugin now runs with FOP, as well as with the latest version of Saxon.
- The Full Easy Install package now ships with Saxon 9B instead of with Xalan, and code in the DITA-OT package has been updated to work with Saxon 9B.
- The Full Easy Install package updates the versions of many open source libraries (including Ant and FOP)
- RFE 1982567 Allow spaces in DITA file names
- Preview function for the majority of the upcoming OASIS DITA 1.2 standard, including everything from milestone builds one through twelve of DITA-OT 1.5
10 SF Enhancements Added
- 1982567 Allow spaces in DITA file names
- 2631145 dita2htmlImpl.xsl should not define doctype
- 2562718 Rename the ant directory to avoid naming collisions with ant
- 2314086 Let maplink generate <linklist> elements
- 2258659 Extend integrator to allow addition of messages.
- 2117337 Customize Integrator to integrate custom directories
- 2074933 Make index output for new transtypes more extensible
- 1995667 Add plugin extension points to preprocess pipeline
- 1972537 Let users specify reloadstylesheet on xslt tasks
- 1803199 Allow ability to include class ancestry in XHTML class attribute
4 SourceForge Patches Added
- 1996733 Structure Ant <pipeline> better
- 1796007 Refactor of related links HTML for specialized processing
- 1947566 pdf2: allow XEP to be installed elsewhere
- 2477370 Refactor of conrefImpl.xsl
31 SF Bugs Fixed
- 2008294 End flag does not work in ditaval
- 2078563 Keyref not working for external links
- 2027170 maprefImpl.xsl removes part of class attr from topichead
- 2027058 Topichead element stops map processing in ChunkMapReader
- 2001268 DITA-OT documentation wants JDK 1.4
- 2008317 Chunking one topic from a large file hogs memory
- 2219479 <prodinfo> subelement associations are lost in HTML output
- 2340727 No link in TOC to topics in ditabase
- 2317627 Chunking map to create one file should use map file name
- 2143078 Relcolwidth not respected in choicetable
- 1995223 bookmap: bookmeta->bookrights information is not generated
- 1990167 reltable doesn't generate external links correctly
- 1953553 FO 1.4.2 plugin: Inconsistent display of "on page" in xref
- 1951879 Link generation is disabled for bookmaps
- 1997171 topic body suppressed in chapter topics
- 2417980 Toolkit should support both versions of Serbian lang code
- 1947817 Extra topics appear in PDF output when using reltables
- 2004588 Image alt text needs space normalized
- 1954463 Conditional processing multiple PDFs in the same JVM
- 2061301 Useless import of xslt4j stops dost.jar being built
- 2317659 Chunking "by-topic" does not work
- 1955211 Footnotes-by-reference rendered naively
- 2010062 Spaces dropped in indexterm that has keyword
- 2607496 USEINDEX=no breaks HTML Help HHP
- 2570118 <xref> without href drops content
- 2414891 Map contains wrong reference after chunking
- 2010092 example or section title can be orphaned in PDF2
- 1999117 Ubuntu 8.04 | startcmd.sh doesn't work
- 2020317 Many duplicated id in xxx_MERGED.xml in PDF2 output.
- 2614006 Conref processing ignores -dita-use-conref-target
- 1727863 <groupchoice> has an extra "|" character