Plans for DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4.2

Version 1.4.2 will primarily include maintenance bug fixes. We will post a list here of items that developers expect to work on for the 1.4.2 release. The current target for DITA-OT 1.4.2 is End of April, 2008.

Milestone builds for DITA-OT 1.4.2 are available at SourceForge. Milestone 1 was released March 20, 2008:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132728&package_id...

Included in 1.4.2

The following items are available in the latest milestone build.

Bug fixes: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725074

1. 1911285 files.txt is not up-to-date
2. 1906954 Constants.ANT_INVOKER_EXT_PARAM_OUTPUTDIR resulted in null a
3. 1903830 Error when collection-type=sequence in map
4. 1903626 Topicref to Glossentry With Topicmeta Throws Null Pointer
5. 1900907 Documentation of generateouter command-line param is incorrect
6. 1900427 TIFF file format not a supported type
7. 1898810 Problem running ant with DITA-OT in path with Latin char
8. 1897358 Compiling CHM's in sequence results in errant index entries
9. 1894561 wordrtf not correctly handling p inside li
10. 1893234 Java TopicMerge removes processing instruction
11. 1868423 Null pointer exception when a PI is at the end of the file
12. 1857405 chunk processing fails when no section element
13. 1855047 startup.sh fails under OS X
14. 1849346 FO file generated from DITA MAP not valid
15. 1843652 Image referenced in map is not found, topicmerge breaks
16. 1843583 Extra bullet in TOC for topicref with no href or navtitle
17. 1839765 index-sort-as not used, content appears in index

Patches: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

Enhancements: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725077

Tentatively planned for 1.4.2

Stephen from the development team is currently investigating the following items for inclusion in the next milestone build (some already have patches attached). This is an initial list; not all can be fixed in time for 1.4.2.

Bug fixes

• 1908306 Index entry for external resource is ignored
• 1908293 HTML Help index contains extra anchor
• 1900916 Pointer to CSS is Incorrect in index.html
• 1900429 Inconsistent stylesheets for topics and index files in XHTML
• 1898451 HTML titles should be space-normalized for CHM consumption
• 1898228 Table desc not being processed
• 1897551 maplink is unawareof chunk to-content
• 1893461 map file href handling
• 1889918 Index link goes with wrong entry
• 1883907 IndexTermReader class doesn't handle specialized titles
• 1873401 XHTML: colsep in last column when @frame=none
• 1872434 _merge.xml missing metadata
• 1868047 htmlhelp path in demo ant script is fixed
• 1864247 PIs missing from ditamaps in temp dir
• 1857282 path to css output is not correct
• 1852808 args.css requires dummy file
• 1848355 gen-list wants class on <foreign> descendants
• 1848313 ditaval file sent to XSLT not URL
• 1844240 Glossary Definitions eliminated during preprocessing
• 1843693 Bad XREF syntax gives confusing message about unique_193
• 1841175 Need to clean up doc/ directory (remove invalid items)
• 1832800 Empty end-range indexterm causes eclipse error
• 1819660 Eclipse Help issue producing toc file.
• 1718672 Java API Reference Specialization missing Annotation Types
• 1628937 Rename supportingboth.ditaand.xmlinaditamap.dita
• 1606387 Shortdesc & Abstract formatting is incorrect for XHTML (checked in for 1.4.2)
• 1541778 URLs not decoded by dost.jar

Enhancements

• 1855523 Pass dost.class.path to XSLT tasks
• 1827322 Let plugins add their own template files
• 1825843 Let plugins add dependencies to Ant targets
• 1824466 Subclass ImportAction
• 1782256 Let plugins not have to choose to go in "demo" or "plugins"
• 1818318 Path to HTML Help compiler on x64 Windows
• 1876118, 1859421 Add plug-in support for string resource-files
• 1796007 Refactor of related links HTML for specialized processing
• 1803199 XHTML: Add class to generated <pre>
• 1800852 Refactor figure and table code for easier restyling
• 1733373 Add support for different frame targets (dita2html)
• 1725284 Add option to generate headings for Task sections

Patches 

• 1930220 Simplify flag templates (Checked in to 1.4.2)