Revision of DITA-OT 1.4.3 Release from Tue, 2009-03-17 18:12
DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4.3
(Note: the DITA-OT 1.4.3 package is not yet available; it will be uploaded as soon as testing is complete, either late on March 17 or early March 18).
DITA-OT version 1.4.3 is an official maintenance release which includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements. It is equivalent to DITA-OT 1.5 Milestone 12, and includes the same fixes and enhancements.
As with other 1.4* releases, DITA-OT 1.4.3 is based on OASIS DITA 1.1. However, it does include a significant amount of preview function based on DITA 1.2. In order to make use of that demo-level function, documents must explicitly reference the DITA 1.2 document types, which are shipped in the toolkit's demo directory.
DITA-OT 1.4.3 is available in three versions:
- The "Minimal" package contains only the core processing code.
- The "Standard" package contains the core processing code, plus demos, documentation, and samples.
- The "Full easy install" package contains the standard package plus external libraries useful for many toolkit processes (such as Saxon and ANT), plus a batch file to setup a local environment.
In previous releases the "Full easy install" package was known as the Full package; with release 1.5 we expect to transition to the name "Easy install" for this package. More information on packaging is available at DITA-OT Packages.
DITA-OT 1.4.3 includes the following major or noteworthy enhancements:
- 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
In addition, the following updates are available in DITA-OT 1.4.3:
Enhancements: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725077
- RFE 1982567 Allow spaces in DITA file names
- RFE 2631145 dita2htmlImpl.xsl should not define doctype
- RFE 2562718 Rename the ant directory to avoid naming collisions with ant
- RFE 2314086 Let maplink generate <linklist> elements
- RFE 2258659 Extend integrator to allow addition of messages.
- RFE 2117337 Customize Integrator to integrate custom directories
- RFE 2074933 Make index output for new transtypes more extensible
- RFE 1995667 Add plugin extension points to preprocess pipeline
- RFE 1972537 Let users specify reloadstylesheet on xslt tasks
- RFE 1803199: Allow ability to include class ancestry in XHTML class attribute
Patches: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076
- 1996733 Structure Ant <pipeline> better
- 1796007 Refactor of related links HTML for specialized processing
- 1947566 pdf2: allow XEP to be installed elsewhere
Bug Fixes: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725074
- 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.
Additional items
- Plugin enhancements to <require> in plugin.xml
- Fix backslashes in $PATH2PROJ in XSLT
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