Plans for DITA Open Toolkit version 1.5

We currently anticipate that DITA-OT 1.5 will contain support for the DITA 1.2 specification. Development of 1.5 will be broken up into a series of iterations, with one or more DITA 1.2 item completed in each iteration. We will update the plans here as each iteration begins.

Items available in the latest iteration

No sprint is currently available

Items under development in the current iteration

No sprint is currently under development

Items for future DITA-OT 1.5 iterations:

All DITA 1.2 items are available for consideration. The details of each OASIS Item listed below are at ImplementationStatus1.2, although the items may be revised as they are added to the draft specification.

• Include DITA 1.2 draft DTDs and Schemas (consider preserving DITA 1.1 modules for users that want a specific version)
• OASIS Item 12007: Keyref. Major item, should probably be broken down into several pieces.
• OASIS Item 12008: Constraints. Expect impact on conref, generalization
• OASIS Item 12010: Topic and domain integration: Expect impact on conref, generalization
• OASIS Item 12011: More general task: likely no impact apart from support for constraints and inclusion of new DTD/Schema
• OASIS Item 12013: Conref range: large impact on conref processors
• OASIS Item 12014: Delayed conref resolution: unsized impact on conref processors
• OASIS Item 12015: Conref push: unsized impact on conref processors
• OASIS Item 12017: Updated metadata in maps to match topics. Need update to code that pushes metadata into topics and pulls metadata from topics; need to update output processors that use this metadata.
• OASIS Item 12018: support for navtitle element (navtitle attribute is deprecated), possibly other elements
• OASIS Item 12020: New text element, support with fallthrough as text
• OASIS Item 12021: sectiondiv and bodydiv: support two new block elements
• OASIS Item 12026: New glossary type: processing to support surface form of acronyms when appropriate
• OASIS Item 12031: Controlled values: support new markup used to validate content of attributes
• OASIS Item 12036: Support new scaling attribute on images
• OASIS Item 12043: draft-comment in shortdesc, body, conbody.
• OASIS Item 12048: Add header rows to reltables
• OASIS Item 12050: Support for new linking attributes in new places
• OASIS Item 12050a: Support for new element longdescref
• OASIS Item 12055: May need to update 'mapref' behavior
• OASIS Item 12060: Support for new referencing element

• OASIS Learning Subcommittee work: make plugin available
• OASIS Machine Industry work: make plugin available

New items for consideration, unrelated to OASIS

• Improved JavaDoc in source code
• Support for spaces in file and directory names
• Easier (possibly graphical) install
• Easy to use sample style overrides
• Common interfaces for calling builds, when for products that imbed the toolkit
• XSLT 2.0 support